Questions tagged [nis]
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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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Enable NIS extensions (rfc2307) on Samba 4 AD after installation
I'm testing out our samba 4 migration process and when the initial forest/domain was created, it was created without using --use-rfc2307:
sudo samba-tool domain provision \
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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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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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ssh via public key authentication for users administered with NIS
I'm experimenting with using NIS for centralizing the user management for a network of approx 20 servers.
I've got an NIS client and server working, and can ssh to the client machine and successfully ...
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