Friday, January 8, 2010

NIS server set up in Fedora

Setting up NIS Server in Fedora
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STEP 1:
Install a package called ypserv
Eg: yum install ypserv
STEP 2:
Setting the NIS Domain Name
Edit the file: /etc/sysconfig/network and add the following line to it:
NISDOMAIN=somedomainname

Eg: NISDOMAIN=LINUX-NIS.com
STEP 3:
Initializing NIS files
You can do this using the following command:
/usr/lib/yp/ypinit –m
STEP 4:
Updating the NIS files
From now on, every time you add a user, delete a user; you have to update the NIS database. You can do this using the command:

make –C /var/yp
STEP 5:
Starting the NIS server
/etc/init.d/ypserv start
The server is now ready to handle authentication requests from the clients

3 comments:

IT-INFRA said...

Gud work Keep it up!!!!!!!!

A said...

cool....
one thing need to mention here...
when ever we create any new user...
we need to update it.

#cd /var/yp/

#make...

and enjoy.....

IT-INFRA said...

Pritam..Kindly read the step 4 completely