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Rehashing /etc/shadow. Can I force NIS users to change password?
I'm currently migrating a CentOS environment to a Debian one. The users log in over the network using NIS. I was hoping to copy /etc/shadow from my old server to my new one so that we can offer ...
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NIS+ Solaris 10, Master Server Setup
this is my first time with NIS+ Naming Service.
I want to configure my host to be a master root server using this script
/usr/lib/nis/nisserver -r -d doc.com.
And I got this error:
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NIS master-slave setup
Currently I am working on NIS Master-Slave setup. I am following Quick HOWTO : Ch30 : Configuring NIS site for most of the things.
The good news is that all the setup is done and I am able to login ...
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nis and autofs manual restart after a reboot
I have a minor inconvenience involving NIS and autofs. I pull my home directory from an NFS server. It all works fine, except that I have to manually restart nis and autofs after each reboot. So after ...
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Group information reported wrong for a specific user
I have a problem on a server I manage. An account (specifically, my account) does not seem to have the correct groups. I think the problem is most easily demonstrated by looking at the following ...
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Using NIS without NFS
I'm configuring several computers in a lab to operate with the same login credentials shared between the computers, but without sharing the home directories. I'm considering using NIS for sharing the ...
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NIS: How to allow access to both local and remote users' home directories?
We have a NIS server with shared users' home directories in '/home'.
We're used to mounting the server's '/home' using '/home' as the mount point on each NIS client.
However, if we do this with a ...
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Problem with NIS [duplicate]
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NIS and autofs error
I have one server and one client machine.
In Server, I have configured NIS, and /home/guest/nis1 is shared through NFS. Both NFS and NIS are ...
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NIS and autofs error
I am trying to share the home directory of a NIS user using NFS and autofs. During testing, I get the following error message:
Could not chdir to home directory /home/guest/nis1: Permission denied
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