i just got a NIS server/client pair running here. installation was fairly
easy, but now that i have to maintain these systems, a couple of questions
immediately arose. unfortunately, the HOWTO's and such deal mostly with
getting the system up and running, and don't really address system
administration issues related to NIS.
my question:
- what is the proper way to add users to an NIS server? the dbm file is
generated from the existing password/shadow file, and adduser adds
records to password/shadow file only. otoh, yppasswd updates the dbm
file only. i could run ypinit after adding a new user, but then the
"current" passwords in the dbm are lost.
this has obviously been dealt with for many many years, but i don't
have any docs explaining it. so how is this usually done?
thanks!
-matt
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