There’s no local files implementation of netgroups. Netgroups are used to group machines or users together in order to make certain sysadmin tasks easier. A standard netgroup triple reads as follows: (hostname, username, domainname)
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by Ramdev · Published September 1, 2015 · Last modified September 19, 2019
Read – Configure Master, Slave and Client Read – Removing a NIS slave server (or convert it to a NIS client) Read – Adding a NIS slave server to existing NIS master’s maps Read – How to completely remove NIS from all machines Read – Restricting...
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by Ramdev · Published May 18, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2015
To add a slave server to an existing NIS domain do the following: 1. become root on master 2. cd /var/yp/`domainname` 3. /usr/etc/yp/makedbm -u ypservers > /tmp/tempfile 4. vi /tmp/tempfileAdd the new slave servers name on a new line twice in a row on the same...
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by Ramdev · Published March 7, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2015
The NIS directory is /etc/nisdir, where all the NIS maps reside. Create a user in the /etc/passwd file.
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by Ramdev · Published May 24, 2011 · Last modified July 23, 2016
Below procedure gives the steps to configure NIS Master Server, Slave Server and Client services in both solaris 9 and Solaris 10 Configuring NIS Master Server You must login as root. 1. Define the NIS domainname. # domainname example-domain –> “example-domain” is the domain name. It...
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by Ramdev · Published May 5, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2015
It is usual problem for server to hang in middle of the boot process, when they are configured for NIS and not able to connect to the server while booting. In this case, the first thing that needs to be done is to reconfig the system...
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by Ramdev · Published May 24, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2015
Changing an NIS slave server to a client is a three-part process: 1. Edit the ypservers map on your NIS master, removing the defunct slave from the list of servers. 2. on the NIS slave, remove NIS configuration 3. Convert the NIS slave as NIS client...
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by Ramdev · Published January 31, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2015
The one of the usual way to do this is to backup all the tables and do a fresh os install.
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by Ramdev · Published July 1, 2012 · Last modified July 2, 2015
Below procedure can be used to add a new NIS user when the passwd file is not in the /etc directory Steps to Follow The example below demonstrates how to add a user for NIS maps when the passwd file is not in the /etc directory....
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by Ramdev · Published April 10, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2015
To find out which systems on the local network are NIS servers, run the following command:
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