NIS, root access

[Thomas Cameron]

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