Andy,
I dont want to question the capabiliies of root account.
Just take an example of an unix environment where
100's of unix workstations are involved. All are under
the same nis domain.
There is no doubt that all these workstations have their
own root login. U mean to say that , if any...
I have a nis login say, user1. The NIS server runs on solaris 7. Also i got a workstation which runs on solaris 7.
Now see the fun.
I logged in *my workstation* as super user (root).
When i executed
# su - user1 i could log in as user1 without any password.
Similarly I was...
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