On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:23:49 +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: >> whenever I add a user in grml, I get the following error: > >> rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - Connection >> refused [...] > >> I've never see this before, and would like to know why adduser need to >> do some rpc calls/connections. > > Because you might run userauth via NIS. You didn't notice this before > because Debian runs portmapper by default - which grml doesn't.
Ahh, no wonder, thanks for the explanation. Any quick fix? PS. I didn't touch any userauth or NIS setting after the HD installation. thanks PPS. I don't have any package that begins with yp installed. _______________________________________________ Grml mailing list - Grml@mur.at http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml join #grml on irc.freenode.org grml-devel-blog: http://grml.supersized.org/
