NIS

[Vulpes Velox]

On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 20:15:15 -0600 (MDT)
freebsd at rmnanetworks.com wrote:

> I have nis setup and working great. I made a copy of master.passwd
> in /var/yp and removed the system accounts. The manual says that
> when I add a user to the primary server and issue make
> nisdomainname(in /var/yp) the new user should be added to the nis
> maps. Am I missing something, as I have to copy over master.passwd
> and remove all system accounts everytime I add an account. I know
> there has to be an easier way.
> 
> I am running FreeBSD 6.1(Current Branch)

pw can be pointed at where you are storing the files for NIS. Look at
the man page for it.