Removing the NIS+ Namespace

To remove the NIS+ namespace and return to using either NIS or /etc files for name services, follow these steps:

1. Remove the .rootkey file from the root master.

   rootmaster# rm -f /etc/.rootkey

2. Remove the groups_dir and org_dir subdirectories from the root master root domain.

   rootmaster# nisrmdir -f groups_dir.domainname rootmaster# nisrmdir -f org_dir.domainname

   Where domainname is the name of the root domain, for example, doc.com.

3. Remove the root domain.

   rootmaster# nisrmdir -f domainname

   Where domainname is the name of the root domain, for example, doc.com.

4. Locate and kill the keyserv, rpc.nisd, nis_cachemgr, and nscd processes.

   rootmaster# ps -ef | grep rpc.nisd root 137 1 67 16:34:44 ? rpc.nisd rootmaster# kill -9 137 rootmaster# ps -ef | grep keyserv root 714 1 67 16:34:44 ? keyserv rootmaster# kill -9 714 rootmaster# ps -ef | grep nis_cachemgr root 123 1 67 16:34:44 ? nis_cachemgr rootmaster# kill -9 123 rootmaster# ps -ef | grep nscd root 707 1 67 16:34:44 ? nscd rootmaster# kill -9 707

5. Create a new domain.

   rootmaster# domainname name

   Where name is the name of the new domain; for example, the name of the domain before you installed NIS+.

6. Remove the existing /etc/defaultdomain file.

   rootmaster# rm /etc/defaultdomain

7. Recreate the /etc/defaultdomain file with the new domain name.

   rootmaster# domainname > /etc/defaultdomain

8. Replace the original nsswitch.conf file.

   If you set up this server with nisserver -r, you can use:

   rootmaster# cp /etc/nsswitch.conf.no_nisplus /etc/nsswitch.conf

   Alternatively, you can copy over one of the default switch template files. To use the default NIS switch file template, you would type:

   rootmaster# cp /etc/nsswitch.nis etc/nsswitch.conf

   To use the default /etc files switch file template, you would type:

   rootmaster# cp /etc/nsswitch.files etc/nsswitch.conf

9. Restart the keyserv process.

   rootmaster# keyserv

10. Remove the /var/nis directory and files.

    rootmaster# rm -rf /var/nis/*

11. Now restart your other name service (NIS or /etc files).