Hello Managers,
We've recently migrated some of our Tru64 servers into an NIS
environment with a dedicated master. As we begin to use it more, I was
wondering how we can keep this fairly transparent to users, and to
administrators. For users, for example, I noticed that they cannot
easily use 'chsh' to modify their shell choice. Obviously, they should
use 'yppasswd' rather than 'passwd'. I am sure I will notice more and
more environmental differences in NIS from
non-NIS in userland.
>From an administrator's point of view, to add users requires many more
steps: I edit the passwd from from /var/yp/src, use 'passwd' to add a
password, make the maps and distribute it, then go into each NIS client
and create a home directory, for _each_ machine. With a little time, I
can write a script to do it all with one tool. But I have a nagging
feeling, this is not the right way to approach this, and I'm probably
going to end up reinventing the wheel. Besides, NIS is supposed to
simplify management.
My question is, is there a generally accepted standard method to keeping
NIS fairly transparent? Are there tools and utilities to keep mundane
task manageable? I admit, I'm quite a newbie when it comes to NIS, I
have and read some of the O'Reilly book "Managing NFS and NIS", but I
don't feel it's answering my questions, are there better books to help
me?
Thanks for any suggestions,
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Kevin Dea
UNIX System Administrator
Alpine Electronics Research of America
Received on Thu Mar 29 2001 - 22:59:38 NZST