NFS Services Administrator's Guide

Configuring and Administering NIS+
Setting Up the NIS+ Namespace
Chapter 5224
To Initialize NIS+ Client Users
Tell all of your non-root users to perform this task. This task sets a user’s
secure RPC password to be the same as the user’s login password.
1. Log into any NIS+ client host using your non-root user login.
2. Issue the following command:
/usr/lib/nis/nisclient -u
The nisclient script will prompt you for the secure RPC password.
Type the default password, nisplus.
The nisclient script will then prompt you for your login password.
After you type your login password, the nisclient script will change
your cred table entry to use your login password instead of the
default password.
To change your password in the future, use the nispasswd command,
which changes your login password and your secure RPC password
at the same time.
For more information, see the following man pages: nisclient(1M),
nispasswd(1), and nis(1).