On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 10:15:22AM -0400, Steven Grunza wrote:

> Is there a quick HOWTO for setting up NIS and AMD?

There's an expensive book that does a good job of it:

UNIX System Administration Handbook
http://www.admin.com/

> To do this, I believe NIS and AMD are being used (or their Solaris/Linux
> equivalents).

I'm not particularly familiar with AMD, but you don't necessarily need
it.  You might get away with doing a regular NFS mount. (AMD just provides
an "it's not there when you don't need it" functionality, as I understand
it.)

In a nutshell, though, setting up NIS:

Once:

  set your NIS domainname in rc.conf, and set it immediately using
    domainname(1)
  run "ypinit -c"
  with vipw, have "+" on the last line of your password file, and be careful
    to not duplicate user accounts that exist in the NIS world

Each boot, automatically with the right rc.conf settings:

  run portmap (or rpcbind on bleedingly new systems) at each boot
  run ypbind at each boot

I believe that pretty much does the trick. You might also need to add a "+"
to your /etc/group file if you need NIS-defined groups as well. If your
machine is working fine as it is, you probably don't need or won't want
more than this.

man nsswitch.conf

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