Re: root loggin in to console without network?

From: Dragan Cvetkovic (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:13:10 -0400

"JSimth" <jsmith@microsoft.com> writes:

> Don`t know if this will fix your problem but the file you probably need to
> adjust it the "/etc/netsvc.conf". This is the equivilent to the nsswitch
> file you refer to.
>
> Do a man on netsvc.conf for syntax. Should be something like "hosts =
> local, nis, bind
>
> Hope this helps...

My impression (after reading the corresponding man page) is that
/etc/netsvc.conf only specifies host resolution and is not relevant to
names and passwords. To quote its man page:

The /etc/netsvc.conf file is used to specify the ordering of certain services in
AIX; specifically, name resolution for sendmail, the gethostbyname, gethostaddr,
and gethostent subroutines, in addition to alias resolution for sendmail.

Bye, Dragan 

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