Re: NIS/AMD questions

1997-07-15 Thread Dale Martin
Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have no pam whatsoever. I have the debian nis package, and when the > NIS server goes down login hangs and dies, even on the console. > The root entry is not exported via NIS and is present on the machine's passwd. > Am I alone experiencing this ? >

Re: NIS/AMD questions

1997-07-12 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sat, 12 Jul 1997 01:35:38 EDT "Richard G. Roberto" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: > > > 1) If the NIS server is down for a NIS domain, root cannot log on the > > console. This is annoying, accounts which are in /etc/passwd (like > > root) should be al

Re: NIS/AMD questions

1997-07-12 Thread Richard G. Roberto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: > I know this is not related to debian, but... > > 1) If the NIS server is down for a NIS domain, root cannot log on the > console. This is annoying, accounts which are in /etc/passwd (like > root) should be always ac

Re: NIS/AMD questions

1997-07-11 Thread Philippe Troin
On 09 Jul 1997 23:00:27 +0200 Christian Leutloff ([EMAIL PROTECTED] e.de) wrote: > Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 1) If the NIS server is down for a NIS domain, root cannot log on the > > console. This is annoying, accounts which are in /etc/passwd (like > > root) should be al

Re: NIS/AMD questions

1997-07-10 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
> --pgp-sign-Multipart_Wed_Jul__9_23:00:25_1997-1 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 1) If the NIS server is down for a NIS domain, root cannot log on the > > console. This is annoying, accounts which are in /etc/passwd (like > > ro

Re: NIS/AMD questions

1997-07-09 Thread Christian Leutloff
Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) If the NIS server is down for a NIS domain, root cannot log on the > console. This is annoying, accounts which are in /etc/passwd (like > root) should be always accessible. isn't it?? Under solaris this works pretty fine. Have you a root entry in

NIS/AMD questions

1997-07-09 Thread Philippe Troin
I know this is not related to debian, but... 1) If the NIS server is down for a NIS domain, root cannot log on the console. This is annoying, accounts which are in /etc/passwd (like root) should be always accessible. 2) I have amd which download its maps from a NIS server. If the NIS server i