[indiana-discuss] set up NIS

[Clay Baenziger]

The instructions on infoshare are far more concise but until they're out, 
an external user may be able to bootstrap themselves with these ancient 
instructions for 2008.05:
http://blogs.sun.com/clayb/entry/sun_isms_for_opensolaris_2008

 							Thank you,
 							Clay

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Stephen Hahn wrote:

> * John Levon <john.levon at Sun.COM> [2008-11-13 01:52]:
>> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 01:02:17PM -0800, Stephen Hahn wrote:
>>
>>>> about manually creating directories in /var/yp, etc. that NIS experts just
>>>> rattle off, but that I've never done manually.
>>>
>>>   ypinit -c will ask you the questions, set the appropriate files,
>>>   create directories, and enable services.  (Turning a NIS client with an
>>
>> Actually it does the opposite of that last step:
>>
>> 6427036 ypinit -c disables nis/client
>
>  Yeah, I noticed this (and a couple of other ypinit -c bugs), too.  For
>  SWAN users, I asked Dan and Seb (and now you) to update and improve
>  the pages on
>
>  http://infoshare.sfbay.sun.com/twiki/bin/view/OpenSolaris/WebHome
>
>  about "Using 2008.n on SWAN".
>
>  (If a lot of non-SWAN users want the NIS portion of these, we can get
>  them sanitized and copied out to opensolaris.org or genunix.org.)
>
>  - Stephen
>
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