configuring nis

[WarrenHead]

Reid Linnemann schreef:
> Written by WarrenHead on 05/21/07 15:34>>
>> 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
>>
> 
> pw by default works on the local /etc/passwd, not the yp passwd 
> database. I suggest reading about the -y option in the manpage:
> 
> -y path
> 
> This sets the pathname of the database used by NIS if you are not 
> sharing the information from /etc/master.passwd directly with NIS. You 
> should only set this option for NIS servers.
> 
> 
> 
Ah ofcourse. I wasn't using the default /etc/master.passwd because that 
one contains way more users than I want to share among machines.
Thanks for the heads up!

Cheers, Warren