configuring nis

[WarrenHead]

WarrenHead schreef:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been having some trouble with getting NIS working on my freebsd 
> server. Mainly because I have never before used this.
> 
> I now have it working, but there is an odd inconsistency which I don't 
> know how to remove/update.
> 
> I changed the gid of a user with: 'pw usermod -n sam -g 1000', but this 
> change is not reflected in the yp maps. I did recreate the maps again 
> with 'ypinit -m', but I guess that was not the trick I needed to update 
> the maps.
> 
> So, now when I run 'ypcat passwd', I see something like this:
> sam:*:1000:1001:Sam Genter:/home/sam:/usr/local/bin/bash
> 
> while I also see this: 'id sam'
> uid=1000(sam) gid=1000(sam) groups=1000(sam), 100(users)
> 
> The difference is thus the gid.
> 
> I can find information about updating/pushing the maps onto slave 
> servers, but not about getting changes into the maps on the sole nis 
> server I have.
> 
> Cheers, Warren
> 
> 
> 
Oh and just running 'make -C /var/yp' doesn't solve it either.
This command is suggested here:
http://www.linux-nis.org/nis-howto/HOWTO/maps.html

Cheers, Warren