When you create an NIS+ object, NIS+ assigns that object a default set of access rights for the owner and group classes. By default, the owner is the NIS+ principal who creates the object. The default group is the group named in the NIS_GROUP environment variable.
NIS+ provides two different ways to change the default rights that are automatically assigned to an NIS+ object when it is created.
The NIS_DEFAULTS environment variable. NIS_DEFAULTS stores a set of security-related default values, one of which is access rights. These default access rights are the ones automatically assigned to an object when it is created. (See Displaying NIS+ Defaults With nisdefaults for details.)
If the value of the NIS_DEFAULTS environment variable is changed, objects created after the change are assigned the new values. However, previously created objects are not affected.
The -D option, which is available with several NIS+ commands. When you use the -D option as part of the command to create an NIS+ object, it overrides the default rights specified by the NIS_DEFAULTS environment variable and allows you to explicitly specify an initial set of rights for that object. (See Specifying Non-Default Security Values at Creation Time in NIS+ for details.)
When an NIS+ object is created, it comes into existence with a default set of access rights (from either the NIS_DEFAULTS environment variable or as specified with the -D option). These default rights can be changed with the