On 21-Mar-00 Nico De Ranter wrote:
> 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.
it is. This is what needs to be done (and this is what I do) on my
Red Hat system at work.
-Greg
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E-Mail: Gregory Hosler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 22-Mar-00
Time: 09:10:12
The answer to the meaning of life:
perl -e 'print$i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10); '
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