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How to change the user id in NIS

yogesh kumar_2 — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:56:28 GMT

How to change the user id in NIS

Re: How to change the user id in NIS

Steven Schweda — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:00:01 GMT

Same way you change anything in NIS? Change
the appropriate data file on the NIS master,
then "ypmake" and/or "yppush"?

Re: How to change the user id in NIS

Jan Mlotkiewicz — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:40:06 GMT

I do this pretty regularly of late..

you need to:

1. change the name of the home dir on the system serving up home dirs.
2. change the /var/yp/src/passwd file to have the new account name / home directory
3. change the /var/yp/src/auto_home file to have the new account name / home dir location match up.
4. change the /var/yp/src/group file ( assuming you are using it ) to get any groups that the user account has, updated to use the new account name.
5. go to /var/yp and run a make against the updated maps. ( passwd / groups / auto.home )

Re: How to change the user id in NIS

Steven Schweda — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:29:45 GMT

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1260990

Re: How to change the user id in NIS

yogesh kumar_2 — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:53:46 GMT

could you please explain me in stepwise.

Re: How to change the user id in NIS

yogesh kumar_2 — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:11:14 GMT

I got the solution