Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 16:31:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Wyatt Banks <banksw@sunyit.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: NIS Handbook inaccuracies Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104051625370.27297-100000@demeter>
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I noticed in the handbook on NIS, it says the following which is inaccurate: However, some operating systems (notably SunOS) use their NIS domain name as their Internet domain name. If one or more machines on your network have this restriction, you must use the Internet domain name as your NIS domain name. This is not entirely accurate. (I know because we do this at this college.) I believe the handbook meant to say if they are on the same subnet. I also have a question on this section of the handbook. It tells me how to add a line to slave NIS server crontab files to keep them in sync with the master server. Does this mean those lines keep the slave NIS map in sync with the master server NIS map or the master server's master.passwd. I ask this, because I created a NIS map for my test network (1 master NIS server, no slaves, 1 NIS client so far) and once the NIS maps were created, they were set in stone, adduser and rmuser have no effect on the NIS maps. Do I need to change crontab to update this for me since its not done automatically? thank you in advance. banksw@sunyit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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