Initializing NIS+ Client Users

After a machine has become an NIS+ client, the users of that machine must add themselves to the NIS+ domain. Adding a user to the domain means changing the Secure RPC password to that user's login password. What actually happens is that the user's password and the Secure RPC password are bound together. This procedure uses the nisclient script.

How to Initialize an NIS+ User

Before You Begin

Before you use the nisclient script to initialize a user, be sure the following prerequisites have been met.

• The domain must have already been configured and its master server must be running.

• The master server of the domain's tables must be populated. (At a minimum, the hosts table must have an entry for the new client machine.)

• You must have initialized a client machine in the domain.

• You must be logged in as a user on the client machine. In this example, the user is named user1.

• Optionally, if using DES authentication, the client machine must use the same Diffie-Hellman key configuration as that used on the master server.

You need the following information to run nisclient.

• A user's login name (user1 in this example)

• The default Secure RPC password (nisplus in this example)

• The login password of the user who will become the NIS+ client

1. To become an NIS+ client, enter the following nisclient command while logged in as the user.

   user1prompt% nisclient -u
   At the prompt below, type the network password (also known as the 
   Secure-RPC password) that you obtained either from your administrator 
   or from running the nispopulate script.
   Please enter the Secure-RPC password for user1:

2. Enter the Secure RPC password, which is nisplus in this case.

   The password does not echo on the screen.

   Please enter the login password for user1:

3. Type the user's login password and press Return.

   The password does not echo on the screen.

   Your network password has been changed to your login one.
   Your network and login passwords are now the same

   This user is now an NIS+ client. You need to have all users make themselves NIS+ clients.