NAME
nissetup — initialize a NIS+ domain
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/nis/nissetup
[ -Y ]
[ domain ]
DESCRIPTION
nissetup
is a shell script that sets up a
NIS+
domain to serve clients that wish to store system administration
information in a domain named domain. This domain should
already exist prior to executing this command (see
nismkdir(1)
and
nisinit(1M)).
A NIS+
domain consists of a
NIS+
directory and its subdirectories:
org_dir
and
groups_dir.
org_dir
stores system administration information and
groups_dir
stores information for group access control.
nissetup
creates the subdirectories
org_dir
and
groups_dir
in
domain.
Both subdirectories will be replicated
on the same servers as the parent domain.
After the subdirectories are created,
nissetup
creates the default tables that
NIS+
serves. These are
auto_master,
auto_home,
bootparams,
cred,
ethers,
group,
hosts,
mail_aliases,
netmasks,
networks,
passwd,
protocols,
rpc,
services,
and
timezone.
The
nissetup
script uses the
nistbladm(1)
command to create these tables.
The script can be easily customized to add
site specific tables that should be created at setup time.
This command is normally executed just once per domain.
Options
- -Y
Specify that the domain will be served as both a
NIS+
domain as well as an
NIS
domain using the backward compatibility flag. This will set up
the domain to be less secure by making all the system tables
readable by unauthenticated clients as well.
Notes
While this command creates the default tables, it does not initialize
them with data. This is accomplished with the
nisaddent(1M)
command.
It is easier to use the
nisserver(1M)
script to create subdirectories and the default tables.
WARNINGS
HP-UX 11i Version 2 is the last HP-UX release on which NIS+ is
supported.
LDAP is the recommended replacement for NIS+. HP fully supports
the industry standard naming services based on LDAP.
AUTHOR
nissetup
was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
