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System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP) Oracle Solaris 11 Express 11/10 |
Part I About Naming and Directory Services
1. Naming and Directory Services (Overview)
2. The Name Service Switch (Overview)
Part II DNS Setup and Administration
3. DNS Setup and Administration (Reference)
Part III NIS Setup and Administration
4. Network Information Service (NIS) (Overview)
5. Setting Up and Configuring NIS Service
Password Files and Namespace Security
How to Add a New NIS User to an NIS Domain
Changing a Map's Master Server
How to Change a Map's Master Server
How to Modify Configuration Files
Modifying and Using the Makefile
Changing Makefile Macros/Variables
How to Modify the Makefile to Use Specific Databases
How to Modify the Makefile to Delete Databases
Updating and Modifying Existing Maps
How to Update Maps Supplied With the Default Set
Using Shell Scripts With cron and ypxfr
Using makedbm to Modify a Non-Default Map
Creating New Maps from Text Files
Adding Entries to a File-Based Map
Creating Maps From Standard Input
Modifying Maps Made From Standard Input
Binding to a Specific NIS Server
Changing a Machine's NIS Domain
How to Change a Machine's NIS Domain Name
Using NIS in Conjunction With DNS
How to Configure Machine Name and Address Lookup Through NIS and DNS
Dealing with Mixed NIS Domains
Part IV LDAP Naming Services Setup and Administration
8. Introduction to LDAP Naming Services (Overview/Reference)
9. LDAP Basic Components and Concepts (Overview)
10. Planning Requirements for LDAP Naming Services (Tasks)
11. Setting Up Sun Java System Directory Server With LDAP Clients (Tasks)
12. Setting Up LDAP Clients (Tasks)
13. LDAP Troubleshooting (Reference)
14. LDAP General Reference (Reference)
15. Transitioning From NIS to LDAP (Overview/Tasks)
Part V Active Directory Naming Service
After NIS is running, you might need to create an NIS slave server that you did not include in the initial list given to ypinit.
To add an NIS slave server:
For more information, see How to Obtain Administrative Rights in System Administration Guide: Security Services.
# cd /var/yp/domainname
# makedbm -u ypservers >/tmp/temp_file
The makedbm command converts ypservers from ndbm format to a temporary ASCII file /tmp/temp_file.
# makedbm /tmp/temp_file ypservers
makedbm then converts ypservers back into ndbm format.
slave3# makedbm -u ypservers
The makedbm command displays each entry in ypservers on your screen.
Note - If a machine name is not in ypservers, it will not receive updates to the map files because yppush consults this map for the list of slave servers.
For more information , see How to Obtain Administrative Rights in System Administration Guide: Security Services.
Copy the NIS map set from the master server, then start the NIS client. When running the ypinit command, follow the prompts and list the NIS servers in order of preference.
slave3# cd /var/yp slave3# ypinit -c slave3# svcadm enable network/nis/client
slave3# /usr/sbin/ypinit -s ypmaster
where ypmaster is the machine name of the existing NIS master server.
# svcadm disable network/nis/client
# svcadm enable network/nis/server