SSH denies root login be default. The config it probally somewhere like
/etc/ssh/sshd_config. The option you're looking for is PermitRootLogin.

Look into useing LDAP instead of NIS/NIS+. LDAP is definitly cooler than
NIS, don't know much about NIS+ though.

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