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Date:      Mon, 28 Jul 1997 16:59:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Eric J. Chet" <ejc@bazzle.com>
To:        "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NIS
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970728165456.3730C-100000@gargoyle.bazzle.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970727233431.4404A-100000@lightning.tbe.net>

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On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Gary D. Margiotta wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> We are trying to set up NIS here, and we already have the ORA Managing NFS
> and NIS book.  The problem(?) is that in the book, it says to use ypinit
> to build the maps and such...we have searched the system, and all
> documentation we can find and haven't seen anything about ypinit on a
> FreeBSD system.  Is there ypinit, or does one of the other yp-functions
> such as ypserve or ypmkdb take over this function.  Any help would be much
> appreciated.  TIA!
> 
Hello
	This should get you going:

	>cd /var/yp
	>cp /etc/master.passwd .
	>vi /var/yp/master.passwd (remove system accounts)
	>make -DMASTER_PASSWD=/var/yp/master.passwd
	>ypserv
	>ypbind


Good luck,

Eric Chet -- ejc@cbtdms1.cb.lucent.com || ejc@bazzle.com
Systems Analysts - Specializing in OOA, OOD and CORBA
Analysts International Corporation





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