Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 10:28:15 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: Eric Lam <ecrim@ecrim.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Basic NIS/YP Help Message-ID: <20020510102815.B14354@fishballoon.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <000001c1f7db$25ec0d90$31b2b2d1@gondor>; from ecrim@ecrim.net on Thu, May 09, 2002 at 09:28:32PM -0700 References: <000001c1f7db$25ec0d90$31b2b2d1@gondor>
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On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 09:28:32PM -0700, Eric Lam wrote:
> I will have a box setup that will be both a NIS/YP server and client.
>
> 1.) To setup this box as both server/client, I perform both steps
> pertaining to server and client in the Handbook? Like, I would do all
> that ypinit and adding all that "+:::::::::" to my /etc/master.passwd?
Yes.
Be aware that sharing passwords over NIS (especially shadow passwords) can
be a real PITA if you have any non-BSD clients -- everyone does shadow
passwords differently. The problems and solutions have been covered at
length on this before.
> 2.) How would I add a user so the user can logon to the server/client
> and to other client-only boxes? Like, is there a easy way of adding the
> user, having the user's /etc/master.passwd entry "exported" to
> /var/yp/master.passwd?
vipw -d /var/yp
Then run 'make' in /var/yp to push out the updates.
> 3.) Because this box is a server/client, I would point this particular
> box's client to localhost, correct?
I have this in my rc.conf:
nis_client_flags="-S ${nisdomainname},`hostname`"
which forces the NIS client to bind only to the server on the same machine,
in the same domain. I believe this is the recommended way of doing things
when you have master & slave servers, so that the clients on the servers
don't accidentally get bound to the wrong server. It probably doesn't hurt
in a single-server setup either.
HTH,
Scott
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