How to Start NIS on a Slave Server

The following procedure shows how to start NIS on a slave server.

1. Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.

   Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Chapter 9, Using Role-Based Access Control (Tasks), in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

2. Stop the client service and start all NIS server processes.

   # svcadm disable network/nis/client # svcadm enable network/nis/server