configuring nis

[Reid Linnemann]

Written by WarrenHead on 05/21/07 16:11>>
> 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

Also of interest should be the -Y option, which when used with the -y 
flag automatically triggers a 'make' in /var/yp.