On Thursday 22 September 2005 16:37, Brian D. McGrew wrote: > I have a single NIS master server that's currently residing on a Sun > E450 running Solaris 8 and I want to migrate it over to my FC4 machine. > > > Can someone point me to a HOWTO or give me some quick help on how to do > this safely? Well, first off, if you have any sun slaves on there then simply don't. Same with HP-UX - AIX seems to do file with a Linux master... Problems range from corrupt dbs on slave servers to users not able to change passwords to random login issues. If your new master is currently a client You can also try just running a ypcat and append that to the end of the existing password/group/hosts/whatever file... Otherwise just copy over the files you're currently generating maps from to the new master in some temporary directiory. with the password & group file just make sure you cut off the system accounts at the beginning of the file.... Make sure you change groups if nessecary and if you need uid/gid < 100 published (i.e. HP-UX uses 20 as users group) you'll need to modify your /var/yp/Makefile. Peter.
