[plug] NIS - Updating Clients ...

Tom Atkinson tom at tyco.net.au
Tue Aug 3 20:25:36 WST 1999


I thought that the whole idea of NIS is that all the machines are
updated automatically.

If this is not happening automatically, either you are not adding
users/groups the way NIS wants you to, or, you don't really have NIS
running like you think you do.

Trevor Phillips wrote:
> 
> Ok, I've got NIS working on a small "lab" of PC's. How do I update the server
> and clients with changes after adding users/groups?? (I'm using Debian 2.1 w.
> its NIS package.)
> I've rummaged through the package docs with no luck, so thought I'd ask here
> before hitting the Net searching...
> Thanks...


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