NIS, root access

[Gordon Messmer]

Dan Track wrote:
> 
> 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.

I've seen that issue when using LDAP, but not NIS.  Did you configure 
authentication using the 'system-config-authentication' tool?  What 
release is this?