Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:54:45 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS Message-ID: <44hcksl96y.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20071015054707.GA34948@parts-unknown.org> (David Benfell's message of "Sun\, 14 Oct 2007 22\:47\:07 -0700") References: <20071015054707.GA34948@parts-unknown.org>
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David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> writes: > Where are there working directions for adding users under NIS? > > The instructions in the FreeBSD handbook don't seem to result in > added users being propagated out to slaves. And the failure is > silent, so I have no idea what I'm really supposed to be doing > to make this work. > > All I know is that added users end up in the main /etc/passwd > and /etc/master.passwd; the -Y option to pw seems to change nothing > other than to consume time "updating" (but I don't know what, since > the changes I'm looking for don't appear) various maps and "pushing" > the maps. > > And, having evidently done the *wrong* thing, how do I fix the > added users so they now appear in NIS? adduser(8) doesn't know anything about NIS. I don't know any automated way of adding users to a NIS map, but my home network is small enough that I don't bother. What you want to do is move the users' entries from master.passwd into your NIS master file, and rebuild the maps.
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