On Friday 23 May 2003 20:45, Rikard Johnels wrote:
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On Friday 23 May 2003 19.11, fsanta wrote:
On Friday 23 May 2003 18:40, Oskar Teran wrote:
Rikard Johnels wrote:
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Hello all. I just installed 8.2 and LOVE it!!!
I got the notion to use NIS to make logins thru my network easier. I set a NIS server on 192.168.1.2 via Yast2. It seems to run ok. I then make one of the workstations use the NIS Client. Also via Yast2. I get a mesage that it is up and running, but how can i check that it REALLY uses the NIS system? Also; how do i add users to the domain? Is there a gui for that? Or do i have to hack several files manually (again)
I want the network to have a centralized login server, so all my UID/GID are the same no matter what station i log in from.
Is NIS the right way, or shall i use Kerberos, LDAP or what??
To add a user all we do is create a user on the server and restart NIS. Yast does all that under its gui. BTW, are you using autofs or nfs'ing it all to your clients? Would love to hear that NIS was finally going under yast with the automounter. Steve.
Not at the moment. I have the /home/<myusername> locally on my main workstation. But as i also have a few NFS mounts i wanted the UID/GID to be consistent...
The next problem i seem to have is to update the passwords. It seems like i cant update my users password. If i do it by root, i get a warning "Can only change local passwords) or something.. And if i jump to the server and change there, i cant login on the workstation anymore... Is there something i need to do withe the old password files? (I found that i had to remove the old entries for my user. Seems like the local shadowed password takes precedence over the NIS.)
Is that users password, users passwords, user password or user passwords? If it's the latter then it's in yast 2>network services>reconfigure NIS Master Server>Allow changes to passwords (and I think we had to export our shares with no_root_squash but don't quote me on that one). Worth a try no?