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 NIS+ 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 15–10 shows some examples.
Table 15–10 Changing NIS+ Defaults – Examples
Tasks |
Examples |
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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.