From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 27 15:47:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17279 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 15:47:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.realtime.net (mail1.realtime.net [205.238.128.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA17188 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 15:47:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jktheowl@bga.com) Received: (qmail 34770 invoked from network); 27 Mar 1998 23:47:15 -0000 Received: from zoom.realtime.net (HELO zoom.bga.com) (root@205.238.128.40) by mail1.realtime.net with SMTP; 27 Mar 1998 23:47:15 -0000 Received: from barnowl (apm7-212.realtime.net [204.96.0.212]) by zoom.bga.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA09095; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 17:47:11 -0600 Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 17:52:41 -0600 (CST) From: John Kenagy X-Sender: jktheowl@barnowl To: Mark Castillo cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS Server, also a client? In-Reply-To: <199803272018.MAA24965@friends.relationships.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Mark Castillo wrote: > Is there any reason why someone would enable NIS client on an NIS Server? > Yes. The server would then have access to all of the network's maps. This is if you are not using the servers own /etc/* files to build maps but are using alternate files in /var/yp/*. If you are using alternate files (like passwd.alternate, or whatever), you can use NIS to append the network file (passwd.alternate) to the server's passwd file by making the server a client. There are other concerns with the local passwd entries not being in the NIS maps. Mail delivery might get broken. The flip side is that if you have master and slave servers running, there exist possibilities that they could cross bind. You should take steps to prevent that - ypset can be used to force binding to a particular server. You must also be sure the source files on the server are very clean or the whole thing can crash. Been there, done that.;-) If you haven't, read Stern's "Managing NFS and NIS" from O'Reilly. He writes with a Sun viewpoint so be sure to read the man pages as well. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message