07-15-2013
ypxfrd is needed on the NIS master only if there are NIS slave servers that are configured to pull copies from the NIS master by means of ypxfr command
in crontab; also needed if a new slave server is added with ypinit command.
I recommend to use yppush in the master's /var/yp/Makefile that pushes copies to the NIS slaves if a map was changed.
ypxfrd is never needed on a NIS client.
Password is changed with yppasswd command; passwd command should work, too.
Each NIS client should have IP addresses of the NIS servers (master and slaves) configured (in /etc.yp.conf or other file, depends on Linux distro). If hostnames are configured it needs /etc/hosts entries to translate them to IP addresses.
A yppasswd talks to the yppasswdd on the NIS master. Could be that it reports own hostname and IP address where yppasswdd then performs a sanity check (safety is not the right word here).
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ypset(8) System Manager's Manual ypset(8)
NAME
ypset - bind ypbind to a particular NIS server
SYNOPSIS
ypset [ -d domain ] [ -h hostname ] server
DESCRIPTION
In order to run ypset, ypbind must be initiated with the -ypset or -ypsetme options. See ypbind(8). ypset tells ypbind to get NIS ser-
vices for the specified domain from the ypserv(8) process running on server.
In cases where several hosts on the local net are supplying NIS services, it is possible for ypbind to rebind to another host even while
you attempt to find out if the ypset operation succeeded. For example, you can type:
example% ypset host1
example% ypwhich
host2
which can be confusing. This is a function of the NIS subsystem's attempt to know always a running NIS server, and occurs when host1 does
not respond to ypbind because it is not running ypserv (or is overloaded), and host2, running ypserv, gets the binding.
Server indicates the NIS server to bind to, and must be specified as a name or an IP address. This will work only if the node has a cur-
rent valid binding for the domain in question, and ypbind has been set to allow use of ypset. In most cases, server should be specified
as an IP address.
OPTIONS
-d domain
Specify a domain other than the default domain as returned by domainname(8).
-h hostname
Set the NIS binding on host hostname
instead of the local machine.
SEE ALSO
domainname(8), ypbind(8), ypcat(8), ypmatch(1), ypserv(8), yppoll(8), ypwhich(1)
AUTHOR
ypset is part of the yp-tools package, which was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@linux-nis.org>.
YP Tools 2.12 April 2010 ypset(8)