HP-UX Reference (11i v2 03/08) - 1M System Administration Commands N-Z (vol 4)

nisaddcred(1M) nisaddcred(1M)

EXAMPLES

Add a LOCAL entry with a UID

2970 for the NIS+ principal name fredw.some.domain

nisaddcred -p 2970 -P fredw.some.domain. local

Note that credentials are always added in the

cred.org_dir table in the domain where nisaddcred

is run, unless domainname is speciﬁed as the last parameter on the command line. If credentials are

being added from the domain server for its clients, then domainname should be speciﬁed. The caller

should have adequate permissions to create entries in the

cred.org_dir table.

The system administrator can add a DES credential for the same user:

nisaddcred -p unix.2970@some.domain \

-P fredw.some.domain. des

Here, 2970 is the UID assigned to the user,

fredw. some.domain comes from the user’s home

domain, and

fredw comes from the password ﬁle. Note that DES credentials can be added only after the

LOCAL credentials have been added.

Note that the secure RPC netname does not end with a dot (‘‘.’’), while the NIS+ principal name (speciﬁed

with the

-P option) does. This command should be executed from a machine in the same domain as the

user.

Add a machine’s DES credentials in the same domain:

nisaddcred -p unix.foo@some.domain \

-P foo.some.domain. des

Note that no LOCAL credentials are needed in this case.

Add a LOCAL entry with the UID of the current user and the NIS+ principal name of

tony.some.other.domain

nisaddcred -P tony.some.other.domain. local

You can list the cred entries for a particular principal with nismatch(1).

WARNINGS

HP-UX 11i Version 2 is the last HP-UX release on which NIS+ is supported.

LDAP is the recommended replacement for NIS+. HP fully supports the industry standard naming ser-

vices based on LDAP.

AUTHOR

nisaddcred was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.