login procedure on UNIX (any difference between root & user)

[Kishore Seshadri]

In article <1990Jul12.223945.20137 at cadence.com>, yhsieh at cadence (Tommy Hsieh) writes:
>
>   I have a question about login procedure.  Is there any difference between 
>login as root and login as a normal user (a user from yellow page).
>
>   I found a strange thing happened on one of our machines.  If I login as
>root, it gives me the prompt right after the /etc/motd message.  But if I
>login as normal user, it gives me the /etc/motd message and then I have to wait 
>one or two minutes to get the prompt.  I have home directory on that machine 
>and all the machines are running yp.  The machine which has problem is a sparc
>station.  Any idea ?  Thanks in advance.

When you say, you have a home directory on that machine, do you mean that it
is physically on the local disk or just that it is file served? It's possible
that your home directory is on an auto-mounted file system.

Kishore Seshadri
kishore at mipos3.intel.com
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