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how to install NIS client on windows server 2012?

how to install NIS client on windows server 2012? Can I do it or not? It seems only migrate it but no client
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NIS netgroup map empty for nis client

We had a NIS master server disaster and an outdated backup for it, but some slaves. I've been put in charge without any NIS knowledge so far except a few basics. I've dumped every map via ypcat from ...
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Unix services on Windows Server 2008

Looking to remove a domain controller that is currently the NIS master for our identity management for unix service. Need to know how to migrate the master to a different Windows server. When you ...
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Automount directories only on certain clients via NIS and NFS

Is it possible to serve certain files via NIS only to a group of clients and not to all of them? It's probably a very easy task but I'm searching for a while now and don't seem to find an answer. I'm ...
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One of my NIS users can't login - why?

I've got an old Solaris 8 server as a client in a NIS domain. All users can login just fine except for one (user 'oracle'). It used to work but late last year "something" changed (I wasn't here at the ...
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How do I replace an NIS master server?

I need to take down my current NIS master server because it is running on RHEL 4 which is too old for the auditors to approve now. I think I need to copy some files off the master over to a slave ...
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Possible to deny all NIS users from logging in over SSH?

Is it possible to deny all NIS users from logging in? There is no physical access to the host, so if NIS can not be configured to deny all, is the solution then to configure SSH to only allow root to ...
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ssh login attempts fail randomly - but work otherwise for same user

I'm having strange ssh login issues, where the login for a user does work in general, but sometimes it doesn't. here's a failed login attempt: Mar 28 14:49:55 hostname sshd[32247]: Invalid user ...
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Need to put two NIS servers in yp.conf file

How do I configure 2 servers in yp.conf I tried : domain domain.com server server1 server2 but it seems to take the first one Tried: domain domain.com server server1 domain domain.com server ...
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NIS user/group ID resolution fails for one NFS volume but succeeds for another

Network setup: (1) NIS server (nisserver), (2) file server (fserver), (3) cluster head server (queuemaster) (4) cluster compute nodes (node1,node2,...) (gateway=queuemaster) fserver is a NIS ...
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NIS login: one user account multiple home directories possible?

I have a network of linux clients and servers that are used for numerical computations; and I'm using NIS for user authentication. After a successful login, every user lands in her / his home ...
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Group membership not transferred from server to client

I have a Suse Version 11.1.0.21 Server with home-partitions for every user and shared partitions for different groups. Groups and group rights (3775) are defined. When the group member is logged in at ...
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Automount parses NIS map incorrectly on SLES 11.2 x86_64

Good morning, I came across a problem in SLES 11.2 x86_64 where the automount daemon parses a NIS map file incorrectly. It seems to be working fine in SLES 11.1 32 bit, and I cannot see any ...
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NIS client cannot find NIS server (Opensuse)

I installed NIS server on head node of a virtual cluster(VirtualBox). One of the node (let's say node-1) can find NIS server and work with it, but another node (node-2) just can't find the NIS server ...
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How to synchronize users, passwords, hosts, etc without NIS

I am administering a very small solaris 2.6 network with 4 boxes total. Is it possible to use scp or similar to replace NIS for synchronizing users, groups, hosts, etc? This network is only a ...
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Is it safe/secure to use NIS for user and group info (no password hashes)?

I have some systems which currently use Likewise Open to integrate into an AD environment, but this creates UIDs/GIDs which are not compatible with the Unix UIDs/GIDs which some other systems use. ...
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Passwordless ssh with NFS+NIS

I'm playing around with a cluster (with torque+open-mpi). I have a master node and compute nodes. Master submit jobs to computes nodes. To do it I use NIS+NFS in order to unify UID's and home ...
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I can't logon to the mail server using an NIS user account

Below is my configuration # 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.0.0-17-server x86_64 Ubuntu 11.10 auth_mechanisms = plain login mail_location = maildir:/nfs/users/%u/Maildir passdb { ...
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NIS/NFS Equalent for Windows

Is there a Windows counterpart for the NIS/NFS implementation on Linux based systems where the entire user settings/ privileges / policies and most importantly the user files are stored on the server ...
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What is required for LDAP authentication to work?

I would like to have LDAP authentication on a webpage. On a CentOS server the .htaccess looks like this Order deny,allow Deny from All AuthName "Only members" AuthType Basic AuthBasicProvider ldap ...
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Output of groups different then id

I'm sure this is something simple, but I can't for the life of me figure out what is going on. We are using NIS (haven't had a chance to migrate to LDAP) and for some reason the groups aren't being ...
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How can I tell which clients are connecting to a NIS/ypserv master server?

I don't have much experience working with NIS at all, as I came from an LDAP environment. I have a project to move a bunch of clients within a NIS domain to point at a new NIS master server. There's ...
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How to mount more than /home?

I have the following in my /etc/auto.master /project yp auto.project -soft,intr,nosuid /home yp auto.home -soft,intr,nosuid /nobackup yp auto.nobackup -soft,intr,nosuid When a user ...
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How to add root user in nis passwd file?

One of the sys admins accidentally moved aside /etc/passwd... doh! Restoring the file from backup doesn't work... it errors out because root user does not exist. I've got NIS running at this site and ...
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Mac OS X 10.5/6, authenticate against by NIS or LDAP when both servers have your username

We have an organization-wide LDAP server and a department-only NIS server. Many users have accounts with the same name on both servers. Is there any way to get Leopard/Snow Leopard machines to query ...
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Basic NIS questions

I'm a software developer who finds himself the SA stuckee when one SA went on vacation right after the other one quit. We have a network of redhat/solaris machines with a solaris NIS server. I want to ...
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Force NIS to use TCP

Is it possible to force NIS to connect using TCP instead of UDP? I've scoured the documentation for both ypserv (to force listening on TCP only) and ypbind (to connect over TCP only) but found ...
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Common user accounts between linux machines

I have a base system with a few (currently two) VMs on top of it, all running Ubuntu Server. I have to keep adding my user account on each system when I bring a new one up, as well as giving it sudo ...
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Password rules for yppasswd

I have a NIS master-slave setup and I would like to improve the password rules/complexity for it. Seems like if I introduce new rules to the NIS Master they are applicable only from there. What I mean:...
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Can I use netgroup at an NIS Client (Redhat) to restrict access to it?

Our company has a central NIS configuration that we are using to access our teams servers (Redhat)... The current configuration allows all valid NIS authenticated users to connect to our servers. We ...
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Sun Power Button Won't Shut Down System

Background: We are running NIS and have NFS mounts from a Solaris 10 workstation to a Solaris 8 server. If the workstation loses its network connection for some reason, when I look at the workstation'...
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Switch from NIS/NFS to LDAP/NFS/SMB?

I'm interested in moving from an NIS/NFS server (Ubuntu) to an LDAP/NFS/SMB on an Xserve. I've been able to get LDAP and the file sharing working, but now I'd like to actually import the existing user ...
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How do I create NIS groups with large userlists

I am trying to create a NIS group with a member list that exceeds 1024 characters. Now I can't do that because the database that NIS uses restricts the value part of the key/value pair to 1024 ...
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Stop ypbind from automatically running

I want my linux client to stop using nis services. Can someone suggest how to do it. Yes, I've already searched on the web, and also on serverfault. As I've mentioned a couple of times on su/so/sf, ...
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NFS automounts hang

I have been mounting NFS shares on my x86 Ubuntu with NIS/am-utils fine for a long time, but today my system got into a state where it could no longer access automounted directories and instead ...
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Server-based homedirs and universal logon on a Linux network? (Other than with NFS+NIS?)

This question was kinda, sorta, already asked, but there's a security issue with the NFS+NIS setup that still bugs me: if you know somebody's username/uid, you can setup a *nix computer, create a user ...
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How to create a Linux Server that inherits authentication from main server?

Can I create another server that uses master server's /etc/passwd to authenticate it's users, and if I share users' homes then they can do everything they want within their home directories without ...
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Using NIS, can I allow only a subset of users to access a particular host?

We use NIS to allow all our users to connect to any of our hosts. However, for one particular host, I want to restrict the users that can log in to a subset of the NIS users. Is this possible?
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NIS passwd file always empty

I've setup NIS on Centos 5.3 following the fairly sketchy documentation online, it seems to be working pretty well, however whenever I run ypcat passwd, either from the server or the client, no ...
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Enable DTrace on Solaris 10 using NIS group

Anyone know how to enable DTrace on Solaris 10 box, based on a NIS group. I am hoping to save some time rather than enabling Dtrace one by one for each user in the group by putting it in the /etc/...
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Integrate LDAP into NIS

I have the task to implement a LDAP service for the typical use cases: User authentication, storing more information on users, storing information on machines, etc. Currently, we have a working NIS ...

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