what are the daemons running In NIS? how to do u create NIS
users and update Maps?
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Answer / kishore devkate
Below daemons will run the NIS
1) ypservd
2) ypxfrd
3) yppasswd
4) ypbind
Create a user by useradd command and copy the line
from /etc/passwd file to NIS data base file, Exple:-some
peoples use /var/yp/domain/passwd
and run the command from /var/yp/domain directory
i.e : #cd /var/yp/domain
#/usr/ccs/bin/make passwd
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NIS Server:
1. ypserv
2. ypxfrd
3. yppasswd
4. ypbind
NIS Slave Server:
1. ypserv
2. ypbind
NIS Client:
1. ypbind
for making users you need use "useradd" command.
after creating users you need to update userdatabase map file in domain database.
# yppasswd username
To update passwd mapfile
# cd /var/yp/domainname
# /usr/ccs/bin/make passwd
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Answer / hyma
NIS deamons:
1)ypserve:reponds client requests
2)ypbind:it runs both server and client side.Stores binding
information in the /var/yp/binding/domainname
directory
3)ypxfrd:it pushes the maps to nis master server to slave
server
4)rpc.yppasswd:If user changes their password that
information is stored in master and slave server aswell
5)rpc.ypupdated:Runs on the NIS master server only. it
updates the all nis information
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