HP CIFS Client A.02.02.03 Administrator's Guide

Using NIS Distribution of the User Map File
The user map file is enabled to be distributed via NIS in a similar manner to the distribution of
/etc/passwd to NIS clients.
To use this feature:
1. Convert the master user map file into an NIS map file named domainusermap.byname on the
NIS master server.
NOTE: The NIS map file name domainusermap.byname is the default name that PAM NTLM
uses for the NIS map file. You can configure a different NIS user map name in the PAM NTLM
configuration file (/etc/opt/cifsclient/pam/smb.conf) of each NIS client. The configuration
option is:
nis ntuser mapname = <new usr map filename>
2. In the user map file of each NIS client that will receive the distributed map file, add an entry
with the plus sign (+) in the first column of the line. The plus sign is used to indicate that parsing
the file should stop at that point and the remaining search of the user map file should use NIS
calls to the NIS server.
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