Whitepaper on NIS Features on HPUX 11i v3

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hitepaper on NIS Features on HPUX 11i v3

February 2007

Contents

1. Executive Summary ......................................................................................................................3

2. Intended Audience.......................................................................................................................3

3. Introduction.................................................................................................................................3

4. Feature 1: DNS Forwarding Mode.................................................................................................3

5. Feature 2: Support for Shadow Password .......................................................................................3

6. Feature 3: IPv6 Data Support ........................................................................................................3

7. Feature 4: Multihomed Host Support ..............................................................................................4

8. Feature 5: Long Username and Long Hostname support ...................................................................4

9. Feature 6: Alternate Directory for passwd file..................................................................................4

Comparative Study of Features...............................................................................................................5

Glossary..............................................................................................................................................5

Appendix: Related Information...............................................................................................................5

For more information ............................................................................................................................6

Summary of content (6 pages)

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Whitepaper on NIS Features on HPUX 11i v3 February 2007 Contents 1. Executive Summary ......................................................................................................................3 2. Intended Audience.......................................................................................................................3 3. Introduction.................................................................................................................................3 4.
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© 2007 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. Nothing herein must be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein.
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1. Executive Summary This paper describes the new NIS features and their usage on HP- UX 11i v3. 2. Intended Audience HP Customers currently using NIS or planning to use NIS, System Administrators, Response Center Engineers who support NIS and HP field and consulting who advise customers on solutions for their environments. It is assumed that the reader has functional knowledge of NIS and its usage. 3.
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two new maps, namely ipnodes.byaddr and ipnodes.byname. The ipnodes maps contain both IPv4 and IPv6 data, the hosts maps contain only the IPv4 data, filtered from the /etc/hosts file. Thus making the ipnodes maps a superset of the host maps. These maps are automatically built on a HPUX 11iv3 system. 7. Feature 4: Multihomed Host Support A multihomed host is a host that has multiple interfaces configured. The NIS Server can now index hosts with multiple entries in the hosts and ipnodes database.
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NOTES: 1. The -D option and the passwd arguments are mutually exclusive 2.
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2. 3. ONC Release Notes NFS Services Administrator’s Guide For more information For more information on Shadow Mode Please see pwconv(1m) , pwunconv(1m), shadow(4), yppasswdd(1M), ypmake(1M) Alternate Directory yppasswdd(1M) DNS Forwarding Mode ypserv(1M), resolver(4) IPv6 IPv6(7P) © 2007 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. Nothing herein must be construed as constituting an additional warranty.