On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 04:15:04PM +0100, Dan Track wrote: > Hi > > Got a slight problem on my workstation. Basically when fedora boots up > sometimes NIS doesn't get started, so when the login prompt appears I > try to login as any user even root but the system won't let me in. The > only way in is to reboot and hope NIS works or reboot to single user > mode and turn of NIS. Does anyone know why I can't login in as root > when NIS is down even though the root password in stored on my > workstation and not in NIS. > > Thanks > Dan Does you NID Makefile on the server limit the user_id below which NIS does not serve the account. If so you may have the root passwd stored on the server not the client. -- ======================================================================= Believe everything you hear about the world; nothing is too impossibly bad. -- Honor'e de Balzac ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
