On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 13:28 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote: > >Try here: > >http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/linux-adv/nis.htm > > > >For NFS you need the UIDs and GIDs of your regular user accounts to be > >the same on server and clients. NIS is one way of doing this. In fact > >it's the "standard" way of doing it because Sun developed NIS and NFS at > >around the same time. > > > >Paul. > > > > > Hi All, > > Paul, thanx for the link...coupla questions, though..does this effect > the current users already on the client.? or, is it only for NFS > authorization.? I see that at boot, the client machine atempts to find > the NIS server, so, that's why I was curious about the effect on current > users...cheers. It depends on the setting for "passwd" in /etc/nsswitch.conf. If you have "files nis" then any passwd entry in local files will take precedence over a same-named entry in NIS. The idea though is that all your regular user accounts are in NIS and there are no local ones except for "root" etc. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
