On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, David S. Miller wrote:
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> Look, your system is trying to talk to the portmapped, almost
> certainly to attempt NIS lookups. You don't have the portmapper
> running and you probably don't use NIS at all right? Look into
> /etc/nsswitch.conf, I it is configuring your system to attempt
> to use NIS. Am I right?
My nsswitch.conf contains
passwd: files
group: files
hosts: files dns
networks: files
protocols: files
rpc: files
ethers: files
netmasks: files
What needs to be modified/removed/added to make login work as expected ?
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