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Re: RH 4.0 & NIS, adding users ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elliot Lee)
Thu Nov 7 19:36:00 1996
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 18:39:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu>
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On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Monty Walls wrote:
> My site is looking at using NIS to centralize a userid/password
> database (systems involved 2 RH linux + SCO UNIX OS5). Currently
> I plan on using one of the linux boxes as NIS master. So how do
> I add users (ie normal administrative activity)? Normally I'd
> run usercfg and just add the users, but with NIS the maps won't
> be updated without a rebuild of the 'dbm' databases (which if this
> is correct, what happens to password changes from yppasswd?).
You should be able to just add users normally using usercfg, then run
'make' in the /var/yp directory.
yppasswd makes changes in /etc/passwd, not just in the dbm maps, so you
are safe there.
-- Elliot
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B: "Who, you?"
A: "No, me!"
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