NFS Services Administrator's Guide

Configuring and Administering NIS+
Administering NIS+
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3. If you want to allow the root user on this host to administer the NIS+
domain, add the host to the domain’s admin group. Issue this
command:
nisgrpadm -a hostname.domainname admin_groupname.domainname
The admin group for most domains is called “admin,” as in the
following example:
nisgrpadm -a romney.Eng.Wiz.Com. admin.Eng.Wiz.Com.
You must have modify permission for the admin group in order to add
members to it.
4. Set up the host as a client of the NIS+ domain to which you just
added the host’s data and credentials. See “To Set Up NIS+ Client
Hosts” on page 220.
You can use SAM (System Administration Manager) to add hosts to the
hosts table, cred table, and admin group in an NIS+ domain, but you
cannot use SAM to set up NIS+ clients. To run SAM, type sam at the
HP-UX prompt.
For more information, see the following man pages: nistbladm(1),
nisaddcred(1M), nisgrpadm(1), sam(1M), and nis(1).