>From reading the docs, it sounded like this wouldn't work, but I tried it anyway, and it works fine. It would be nice if the docs were a little more explicit about this specific scenario since it's likely to be common.
--chris David Powell wrote: > Chris Quenelle wrote: >> Is there any way to authorize the "root" role for my NIS login account >> without needing permissions to manage the NIS inforamtion? >> >> Can I perform a local modification that grants rights to NIS account? >> >> I would like to leave RBAC enabled, but I need to login using my NIS >> account and have the ability to use the root role. > > I have successfully added attributes locally to /etc/user_attr and > have had them apply to my NIS account. > > I also specify "files nis" for all sources in nsswitch.conf; I don't > know if that is necessary for the above to work or not. > > Dave >
