NIS service is provided by five daemons as shown in Table 7–1.
Table 7–1 NIS Daemons
Daemon |
Function |
---|---|
ypserv |
Server process |
ypbind |
Binding process |
ypxfr |
High speed map transfer |
rpc.yppasswdd |
NIS password update daemon ** See NOTE below.** |
rpc.ypupdated |
Modifies other maps such as publickey |
rpc.yppasswdd considers all shells that begin with an r to be restricted. This means that users who have a shell that begins with an r. For example, if you are in /bin/rksh, you are not allowed to change from that shell to another one. If you have a shell that begins with r but is not intended to be restricted as such, refer to Chapter 10, NIS Troubleshooting for the workaround.