On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:52:29PM +0100, Thierry LACOSTE wrote:
> Good guess.
> Ethereal shows me that the cient is requesting the group.byname map.
> I'm really confused about that. I don't see the point of this request:
> how can a purely local account be in a group exported by the yp server?

You could have root in one or more groups from the NIS map. And the system
doesn't know that root is in fact in none of these groups without reading
this map.
In other words, to make sure it's really local it needs to read the NIS
group map.

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