Re: NIS Questions

[Steve Borho <sborho ststech com>]

On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 05:45:09PM -0400, Gerry Doris wrote:
> I've never used NIS before and thought I'd try it out.  However, after
> reading the HOWTO's it seems that some files are modified and some brand
> new ones added.
> 
> If I start this little devil up will I be able to easily remove it and go
> back to scratch or is this a "till death do we part" relationship??

You can leave your old passwd and group files behind.  NIS is designed
so that you can choose which parts to serve centrally and which parts
you want to handle locally.

To quit using NIS, I think that all this takes is unsetting the NIS
domain name (domainname '') and commenting out /etc/yp.conf.  Glibc
will figure out "on-the-fly" whether to use it or not.

-- 
Steve Borho <sborho ststech com>