On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 16:15 +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 Please post /etc/nsswitch.conf Thomas