Implementation of NIS on Trusted System HP-UX 11.31

[Muthyala]

Hi

Currently all our servers are configured for Trusted system mode I want to implement NIS services . My question is will NIS work under Trusted system mode ? . If yes how to implement it.

TIA

Sri

[Patrick Wallek]

I don't think NIS is supported with Trusted Mode.  It may work with shadow mode though.

[Muthyala]

Thanks for your reply , I want to keep the system in trusted only , so it means that I can't implement NIS along with it.

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

Here are some links for you:

Whitepaper on NIS Features on HPUX 11i v3

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/CoreRedirect.jsp?redirectReason=DocIndexPDF&prodSeriesId=4155379&targetPage=http%3A%2F%2Fbizsupport2.austin.hp.com%2Fbc%2Fdocs%2Fsupport%2FSupportManual%2Fc02037990%2Fc02037990.pdf

Network Information Service (NIS) B.11.31.04 Administrator's Guide

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/CoreRedirect.jsp?redirectReason=DocIndexPDF&prodSeriesId=4155379&targetPage=http%3A%2F%2Fbizsupport2.austin.hp.com%2Fbc%2Fdocs%2Fsupport%2FSupportManual%2Fc02037568%2Fc02037568.pdf

[Bill Hassell]

A Trusted System implies that security is an important factor for your system. NIS is a very non-secure method to authenticate, thus it doesn't work with a Trusted System.