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

nissetup(1M) nissetup(1M)

NAME

nissetup - initialize a NIS+ domain

SYNOPSIS

/usr/lib/nis/nissetup

[ -Y ][domain ]

DESCRIPTION

nissetup is a shell script that sets up a NIS+ domain to serve clients that wish to store system adminis-

tration information in a domain named domain. This domain should already exist prior to executing this

command (see nismkdir(1) and nisinit (1M)).

A NIS+ domain consists of a NIS+ directory and its subdirectories:

org_dir and groups_dir.

org_dir stores system administration information and

groups_dir stores information for group

access control.

nissetup creates the subdirectories

org_dir and groups_dir in domain. Both subdirectories will

be replicated on the same servers as the parent domain. After the subdirectories are created,

nissetup

creates the default tables that NIS+ serves. These are

auto_master, auto_home, bootparams,

cred, ethers, group, hosts

, mail_aliases, netmasks, networks, passwd, protocols,

rpc, services, and timezone. The

nissetup script uses the nistbladm(1) command to create these

tables. The script can be easily customized to add site speciﬁc tables that should be created at setup time.

This command is normally executed just once per domain.

Options

-Y Specify that the domain will be served as both a NIS+ domain as well as an NIS domain using the

backward compatibility ﬂag. This will set up the domain to be less secure by making all the system

tables readable by unauthenticated clients as well.

Notes

While this command creates the default tables, it does not initialize them with data. This is accomplished

with the nisaddent (1M) command.

It is easier to use the nisserver (1M) script to create subdirectories and the default tables.

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

nissetup was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.