NIS, root access
Dan Track
dan.track at gmail.com
Mon Jun 27 11:26:13 UTC 2005
On 6/17/05, Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron at camerontech.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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Hi
Thanks for all the replies.
I don't use the gui to add NIS, I use the Authentication section under
the ncurses "setup" program.
Here's my nsswitch.conf
#
# /etc/nsswitch.conf
#
# An example Name Service Switch config file. This file should be
# sorted with the most-used services at the beginning.
#
# The entry '[NOTFOUND=return]' means that the search for an
# entry should stop if the search in the previous entry turned
# up nothing. Note that if the search failed due to some other reason
# (like no NIS server responding) then the search continues with the
# next entry.
#
# Legal entries are:
#
# nisplus or nis+ Use NIS+ (NIS version 3)
# nis or yp Use NIS (NIS version 2), also called YP
# dns Use DNS (Domain Name Service)
# files Use the local files
# db Use the local database (.db) files
# compat Use NIS on compat mode
# hesiod Use Hesiod for user lookups
# [NOTFOUND=return] Stop searching if not found so far
#
# To use db, put the "db" in front of "files" for entries you want to be
# looked up first in the databases
#
# Example:
#passwd: db files nisplus
#shadow: db files nisplus
#group: db files nisplus
passwd: files nis
shadow: files nis
group: files nis
#passwd: compat
#shadow: compat
#group: compat
#hosts: db files nisplus nis dns
hosts: files nis dns
# Example - obey only what nisplus tells us...
#services: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
#networks: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
#protocols: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
#rpc: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
#ethers: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
#netmasks: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
bootparams: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
ethers: files
netmasks: files
networks: files
protocols: files nis
rpc: files
services: files nis
netgroup: files nis
publickey: nisplus
automount: files nis
aliases: files
Thanks
Dan
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