Re: Next 2.{1,2}: any user logging in becomes root?! [netinfo?]

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From: Paul S. Sears
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:19

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In article <16986@umd5.umd.edu> matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)  
writes:
=>In article <1992Nov13.000853.28574@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>  
sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Operator) writes:
=>>	I suspect that this machine is not mounting the user's file system
=>
=>That was what I thought too, and is usually the case.  Then the same thing
=>happened to me.  The user who logs in, even with their own userid/password,
=>is root as far as 'whoami' is concerned.
=>
=>The problem is with lookupd; when it gets hosed Really Bad Things like this
=>start to happen.
=>

So I guess that I am not the only one who is having severe problems with  
lookupd.  After much investigation, it seems that if you have netgroups set up  
incorrectly (if you are using them) in netinfo, lookupd can get hosed rather  
easily.  What complicated our problem was that we had two servers serving our  
cluster...

=>>=> Sherwood Botsford                   sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= 


=>Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted)
=>------

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From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
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Subject: Re: Next 2.{1,2}: any user logging in becomes root?!  [netinfo?]
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