Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:57:27 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS Message-ID: <47138DE7.80800@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <20071015054707.GA34948@parts-unknown.org> References: <20071015054707.GA34948@parts-unknown.org>
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David Benfell wrote: > Hello all, > > Where are there working directions for adding users under NIS? > > The instructions in the FreeBSD handbook don't seem to result in > added users being propagated out to slaves. And the failure is > silent, so I have no idea what I'm really supposed to be doing > to make this work. > > All I know is that added users end up in the main /etc/passwd > and /etc/master.passwd; the -Y option to pw seems to change nothing > other than to consume time "updating" (but I don't know what, since > the changes I'm looking for don't appear) various maps and "pushing" > the maps. > > And, having evidently done the *wrong* thing, how do I fix the > added users so they now appear in NIS? > > Thanks! > > The following comes from the handbook and works for me: copy your master.passwd to /var/yp, i.e: cp /etc/master.passwd /var/yp/master.passwd Edit the copy of master.passwd and exclude all "irrelevant" accounts (root,servers and so on) Then run: ypinit -m your-nis.domain My real problem with nis is the fact the freebsd maps are not compatible with linux clients, and I can't seem to get the Makefile right...
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