Setting Up Tables

It is much easier to perform this task with the NIS+ installation scripts, as described in Part 1, than with the NIS+ command set, as described here. The methods described in this chapter should be used only by those administrators who are very familiar with NIS+ and who require some nonstandard features or configurations not provided by the installation scripts. Also, if you have them available, the Solstice AdminSuite tools provide easier methods of working with NIS+ tables.

You can populate NIS+ tables in four ways:

• From files, as described in "Populating NIS+ Tables From Files"

• From NIS maps, as described in "Populating NIS+ Tables From NIS Maps"

• With the nispopulate script, as described in "Populating NIS+ Tables" and "Populating the New Subdomain's Tables"

• With Solstice AdminSuite tools, if you have them available

When populating tables from maps or files, the tables should have already been created in the process of setting up a root or subdomain, as explained in Chapter 5, Setting Up the Root Domain and Chapter 8, Configuring a Non-root Domain. Although you can populate a domain's tables at any time after they are created, it is recommended that you do so immediately after setting up the domain. This enables you to add clients more easily, since the required information about the clients should already be available in the domain's tables.