[CentOS] NIS
Toralf Lund
toralf.lund at pgs.com
Wed Jul 22 11:06:16 UTC 2009
Per Qvindesland wrote:
> Hi list
>
> Does anyone know about a good howto setup nis and to make ad see it
> and use the usernames?
I haven't actually set up NIS in the machine I'm using right now, but if
I remember correctly, what you need to do to get a machine to use the
usernames and passwords on an existing NIS server is:
1. Insert a line like
domain yourdomainname broadcast
in the file /etc/yp.conf.
2. Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf; change the line
passwd: files
to
passwd: files nis
or
passwd: nis files
3. /sbin/chkconfig ypbind start
If you are using DHCP and the DHCP server knows the NIS domain name,
it's even simpler, as 1) should be done automatically (but it's always a
good idea to check the file just in case.)
If you're talking about setting up a NIS server, I can't recall much
about how it's done, I'm afraid...
- Toralf
> Regards
> Per Qvindesland
> E-mail: per at norhex.com <http://webmail.norhex.com/#>
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