Changing Defaults

You can change the default access rights, owner, and group, by changing the value of the NIS_DEFAULTS environment variable. Use the environment command that is appropriate for your shell (setenv for C-shell or $NIS_DEFAULTS=, export for Bourne and Korn shells) with the following arguments:

• access=right, where right are the access rights using the formats described in "Specifying Access Rights in Commands".

• owner=name, where name is the user name of the owner.

• group=group, where group is the name of the default group

You can combine two or more arguments into one line separated by colons:

-owner=principal-name:-group=group-name

Table 10-13 shows some examples:

Table 10-13 Changing Defaults--Examples

Tasks	Examples
This command grants owner read access as the default access right.	client% setenv NIS_DEFAULTS access=o+r
This command sets the default owner to be the user abe whose home  domain is doc.com.	client% setenv NIS_DEFAULTS owner=abe.doc.com.
This command combines the first two examples on one code line.	client% setenv NIS_DEFAULTS access=o+r:owner=abe.doc.com.

All objects and entries created from the shell in which you changed the defaults will have the new values you specified. You cannot specify default settings for a table column or entry; the columns and entries simply inherit the defaults of the table.