[plug] NIS - Updating Clients ...

[Trevor Phillips]

Tom Atkinson wrote:
> 
> I thought that the whole idea of NIS is that all the machines are
> updated automatically.

That's the idea...

> 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.

It's the adding users/groups that I can't find docs on. Do I use the old
commands? Are there new commands?

Andrew Howell wrote:
> 
> Install the debian nis package on every linux box and then read
> /usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz.
> 
> Especially the part about adding +:::: etc to /etc/group /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow

I have done all this, and everything is working as it should.

However, if I add a group on the master server, that group is not accessible
on the remote machines till.... when? How often are the changes pushed out to
the clients? And is there a manual way to trigger an update? Under HP-UX years
ago we used YP, and there was a command (ypmake?) that would rebuild the data
and push the changes out to all the clients...

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