Prerequisites to Running nisclient

Before you can use the nisclient script:

• The domain must have already been configured and its master server must be running.

• The master server of the domain's tables must be populated. (At a minimum, the hosts or ipnodes table must have an entry for the new client machine.)

• You must be logged in as superuser on the machine that is to become an NIS+ client. In this example, the new client machine is named client1.

Information You Need

You need:

• The domain name.

• The default Secure RPC password (nisplus).

• The root password of the machine that will become the client.

• The IP address of the NIS+ server (in the client's home domain).

• If DES authentication is used, note the Diffie-Hellman key length used on the master server. Use nisauthconf to ascertain the master server Diffie-Hellman key length.