Do you have sysadmin access (sudo or root) to the NIS/YP database tables and/or server?
If so, depending on how NIS is configured in your environment, follow these steps, but modify them for your NIS implementation: VLSI Group - NIS domain
If you don't have admin access, you'll need to talk to whomever does, and have them configure your machine and add it to the NIS domain.
To change your shell, log in with your NIS account, and use the command:
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I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but I would like to know if Redhat running NIS ( not NIS +) would have conflict with Solaris running NIS+. Currently I am running NIS+ on Solaris but will be adding RedHat to the network. I seem to be unable to find and information regarding... (2 Replies)
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I just took over the admin role from someone and I wanna setup sendmail (just to send mail from the host) however, after I config all the resolv.conf, nssitch.conf, hosts file and when I try to send a mail out, after I punched ctl-D, it returned he following,
"NIS map mail.aliases... (2 Replies)
We have a RedHat 8.0 NIS master, with a RedHat 8.0 NIS Slave.
We also have a small number of SUSE 9.1 and SUSE 10 machines here for evaluation.
However, no matter what i do, the SUSE machines will not talk to the NIS Servers.
If i broadcast for NIS Servers for the specified NIS domain, it... (1 Reply)
Hi Guys,
I have lots of doubts regarding NIS+.I also think by basics could be wrong......I am trying to pick up stuff from documents which are a bit murky. I am working on production environment so I am afraid of trial and error! Please help.
1) What is the difference between root domain master... (1 Reply)
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I have a Solaris client here needs to bind to NIS server in another subnet. Following is the configuration i made on the client,
1) edit /etc/inet/hosts to add an entry of the NIS server -- nserver01
2) execute `domainname` to set local NIS domain to the domain of the NIS server.... (1 Reply)
I'm creating a scrip for auditing our AIX box's to ensure that they are built according to our system standards. I'm not sure on the logic for checking to see if the NIS and NIS+ services are disabled. any idea's? (2 Replies)
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I am new to NIS, In my company need to create a user with admin rights and the user was created but he is unable to login. below are the difference i am getting for me and him.
root@ abc]# getent passwd cric
cric:x:60215:20059:a:/home/cric:/bin/csh
# ypcat passwd | grep sam... (5 Replies)
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userdel
userdel(1M) System Administration Commands userdel(1M)NAME
userdel - delete a user's login from the system
SYNOPSIS
userdel [-r] login
DESCRIPTION
The userdel utility deletes a user account from the system and makes the appropriate account-related changes to the system file and file
system.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-r Remove the user's home directory from the system. This directory must exist. The files and directories under the home directory
will no longer be accessible following successful execution of the command.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
login An existing login name to be deleted.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful completion.
2 Invalid command syntax. A usage message for the userdel command is displayed.
6 The account to be removed does not exist.
8 The account to be removed is in use.
10 Cannot update the /etc/group or /etc/user_attr file but the login is removed from the /etc/passwd file.
12 Cannot remove or otherwise modify the home directory.
FILES
/etc/passwd system password file
/etc/shadow system file contain users' encrypted passwords and related information
/etc/group system file containing group definitions
/etc/user_attr system file containing additional user attributes
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO auths(1), passwd(1), profiles(1), roles(1), users(1B), groupadd(1M), groupdel(1M), groupmod(1M), logins(1M), roleadd(1M), rolemod(1M),
useradd(1M), userdel(1M), usermod(1M), passwd(4), prof_attr(4), user_attr(4), attributes(5)NOTES
The userdel utility only deletes an account definition that is in the local /etc/group, /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and /etc/user_attr file.
file. If a network name service such as NIS or NIS+ is being used to supplement the local /etc/passwd file with additional entries, userdel
cannot change information supplied by the network name service.
SunOS 5.10 8 Sep 1999 userdel(1M)