On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Matt Nelson wrote:
> 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.
On my SUN I need to cd to /var/yp and run make after making changes to the
password file, this will take care of rebuilding the dbm files and pushing
the changes to the slave NIS servers. I suspect on Linux this should be
more or less the same.
Nico
>
> 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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