Dylan wrote:
On Thursday 18 December 2003 19:58 pm, Mark Gray wrote: <SNIP>
Ahah -- thats your problem (I think:-), NIS is not setting your groups up properly when you login (your original suspicion is correct). I do not know anything about NIS, so you probably should reask your question with an appropriate NIS/groups containing subject so the NIS experts on this list have a look.
Well, some playing around has sorted it - I told the NIS server to distribute GUID's from 0 rather than the default 500 and all is fine now!
Dylan
So your using this as a root account.... Userid 0 is the userid of the root user. This is a huge securitie risk. Wouldn't be better to add the groups uucp(for ttyS0) and tty(for ttys0) to the user account on the NIS server. And rebuild the NIS map on the NIS server. This should work and is more secure. Hope this helps, Stefan.