Configure NIS password aging among server/clients question

[Liu, yuhyun Marjorie]

Hello,

I am trying to implement password aging for our HP server and workstations.
The server is 9000/800/L2000-44 using HP-UX 11.0. There are about 2 other servers(HP-UX 11.0) as backup, and multiple clients workstations( model 9000/778/B180L). OS for some of the clients are HP-UX 10.20.

I am trying to use NIS feature to set up NIS server, and NIS clients. I have a specific question, when I use SAM to look at 'name service switch', those services do not match the services items in the /etc/nsswitch.conf file. But if I made changes to the SAM's name service switch, they do show up in the /etc/nsswitch.conf file.

However, on the workstation with HP-UX 10.20, when I change the nsswitch.conf file with a complete services set( e.g. passwd,aliases, automount, etc), the SAM name service switch still check only the old set of services,(hosts,protocols,services,network,netgroup,rpc). and does not show all the items inside the nsswitch.conf file. So I am quite confused about it. why?

Can someone give me a complete description of how to set up NIS server/client and example of changes in /etc/password, /etc/group, and /etc/nsswitch.conf file?

I do not want to convert any OS to trusted system.

Thanks for all the help.

Marjorie Liu

[Dave Olker · Accepted solution]

Hello Marjorie,

The NFS Services Administration Guide contains a full chapter on configuring NIS servers and clients. The HTML version of this document can be found at:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90054/B1031-90054.html

Chapter 4 explains how to configure/administer NIS.

Hope this helps,

Dave

[Dave Olker]

Regarding nsswitch.conf configuration - Chapter 6 of that same manual discusses this file and how to change it to work with NIS.

Regards,

Dave

[Liu, yuhyun Marjorie]

Thanks for the info, it saves me a lot of time to search.