script create NIS user

[tom quach_1]

Hello,

Does anyone know of any scripts to create NIS users, set default password and push to a second node.

Regards,
Tom

[A. Clay Stephenson]

You've really got to define the problem much better. What file actually serves as the source for the passwd map? Moreover, it's very common to have automount directories (especially for the users' home directories) stored by NIS. Normally, you run your script on the NIS master and remsh or ssh to cereate the home directory on the desired target machine and then do a ypmake. Ypmake will then do all the automatic pushing of the updated maps for you.

You will find that when you define the problem well enough, the script almost writes itself. Perl has the crypt() function which can be used to generate the passwd hash.

[tom quach_1]

Thank-you A.Clay

I am using NIS with home dir is an NFS folder, and have been creating users using SAM. Just would like to automate the process so i could do thing faster.
i am not sure "useradd" would work with NIS
but will try it out.

Thanks,
Tom

[Peter Nikitka]

Hi,

when you use the /etc/passwd of the NIS master as source of the NIS map 'passwd', the 'useradd' on the NIS master will do it for all NIS users.

mfG Peter

[tom quach_1]

thanks Peter,

i just create user using useradd and run ypmake
to generate the map and push it to other server.

thanks,
Tom

[tom quach_1]

Thank you all for your help.

Regards,
Tom