thanks to all who replied (there were many of you), all basically saying
that i should unmount home directories and check the permissions on
/home... it doesn't matter now anyway - we got a new hard disk and
solaris 2.6, and after many hours of seemingly fruitless config-fiddling,
our solution was "let's just reboot everything"... which worked... the
problem has gone away (as someone suggested, it was probably related to a
minor nis+ problem which only got fixed yesterday, right before the
reboot...)
Billy Constantine
Computer Science student / SMUG Systems Administrator
University of Adelaide, South Australia
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