useradd on NIS

[joe_91]

Team:

We are developing some scripts for useradd/usermod on NIS environment. Could you please give me direction how to use these commands in NIS. I thought these commands only work on /etc/passwd. We want to use it on /etc/passwd.nis

Thanks

Joe

[Steven E. Protter]

I believe if you do the useradd on the master NIS server and then yppush the update will happen and be available on all NIS slave machines.

SEP

[Rick Garland]

Since you are using a passwd.nis file, does the NIS master know about this file? If so then useradd will work. Also, does the yppush (ypmake) know about the passwd.nis file. If not then the passwd.nis file will not get propagated to the NIS slave servers.

[joe_91]

So looks like it all depends on how your Makefile is set up (var/yp/Makefile)?

Thanks

Joe

[Rick Garland]

It can - yes.