NFS Services Administrator's Guide

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To Determine Which Hosts Will Be NIS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
To Draw an NIS Network Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Configuring and Administering an NIS Master Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
To Create the Master passwd File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
To Create the Master group File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
To Create the Master hosts File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
To Enable NIS Master Server Capability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
To Verify Your NIS Master Server Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
To Configure the NIS Master Server to Use a Private passwd File . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
To Restrict Client and Slave Server Access to the Master Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Examples from /var/yp/securenets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
To Check the Contents of an NIS Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
To Modify an NIS Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
To Add an Automounter Map to Your NIS Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
To Remove an Automounter Map from Your NIS Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
To Add a Slave Server to Your NIS Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
To Remove a Slave Server from Your NIS Domain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
To Query BIND for Host Information After Querying NIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
To Use NIS With Short File Names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
To Configure an HP-UX Master Server in a Domain with Sun Systems . . . . . . . . 171
Configuring and Administering an NIS Slave Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
To Edit the Slave Server’s passwd File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
To Edit the Slave Server’s group File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
To Enable NIS Slave Server Capability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
To Verify Your NIS Slave Server Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
To Schedule Regular Map Transfers from the NIS Master Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
To Restrict Access to the Slave Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Examples from /var/yp/securenets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Configuring and Administering an NIS Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
To Edit the NIS Client’s passwd File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
To Edit the NIS Client’s group File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
To Enable NIS Client Capability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
To Verify Your NIS Client Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
To Tell Users How to Use yppasswd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
To Prevent a Client from Binding to Unknown Servers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Examples from /var/yp/secureservers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188