Another YP question

[Rick Stevens]

Waldher, Travis R wrote:
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com] 
>>Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 2:33 PM
>>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
>>Subject: Re: Another YP question
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>>As I said, if you DON'T use the pure /etc files as the basis 
>>of your NIS server's NIS maps and instead use copies (see 
>>"man ypserv.conf"), you can separate the NIS logins from 
>>local logins on the NIS server.
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> Which is doable, except that we would like to be able to use COTS user
> and group management tools.  So the question becomes, can redhat's user
> manager be easily altered to support, say a /nisusers/passwd, group, and
> shadow?  The GUI is nice, because it requires less training to create
> accounts.

Provided you're willing to bugger the appropriate stuff in
/etc/security/console.apps to support it, yes.

> Otherwise, I see us having to rewrite or continue using in house built
> tools, which costs more in the long run than the COTS stuff.

Well, make sure you read up on consolehelper, userhelper and pam.  Do
your testing on a machine you're not worried about breaking and you
should be able to make it go.  It really isn't hard to do, but a small
mistake can cause grief.  Test, test, test!
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