Prerequisites to Running nisclient

Before you can use the nisclient script to initialize a user:

• 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 table must have an entry for the new client machine.)

• You must have initialized a client machine in the domain.

• You must be logged in as a user on the client machine. In this example, the user is named user1.

• Optionally, if using DES authentication, the client machine must use the same Diffie-Hellman key configuration as that used on the master server.

Information You Need

You need:

• A user's login name (user1 in this example)

• The default Secure RPC password (nisplus in this example)

• The login password of the user who will become the NIS+ client