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From: krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  problems with root access
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Date: 31 Jan 91 15:01:25 GMT
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Sounds like perhaps the registry daemons are either dead or
non-communicative due to NCS problems. I believe that the
machines all keep caches of recently used user-ID's in case
they get cut off from the rgy, which may explain why some users
can get logged in, but root (who presumably isn't logged in
very often) can't. Check the rgyd replicas, the glbd and llbd
replicas, and the time-of-day clocks (they need to be within
a few minutes of each other on the nodes running glbd's). Try
using "cat" on /etc/passwd -- if you can't list the file, then
the registries are dead, since this file is really a type-manager
file which invokes the rgyd to create a listing on the fly.


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