configuring nis

[Reid Linnemann]

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.