nissetup(1M) Maintenance Commands nissetup(1M)
NAME
nissetup - initialize a NIS+ domain
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/nis/nissetup [ -Y ] [ domain ]
DESCRIPTION
nissetup is a shell script that sets up a NIS+ domain to
service clients that wish to store system administration
information in a domain named domain. This domain should
already exist prior to executing this command (see nismk-
dir(1) and nisinit(1M)).
A NIS+ domain consists of a NIS+ directory and its subdirec-
tories: org_dir and groups_dir. org_dir stores system
administration information and groups_dir stores information
for group access control.
nissetup creates the subdirectories org_dir and groups_dir
in domain. Both subdirectories will be replicated on the
same servers as the parent domain. After the subdirectories
are created, nissetup creates the default tables that NIS+
serves. These are auto_master, auto_home, bootparams, cred,
ethers, group, hosts, mail_aliases, netmasks, networks,
passwd, protocols, rpc, services, and timezone. The
nissetup script uses the nistbladm(1) command to create
these tables. The script can be easily customized to add
site specific tables that should be created at setup time.
This command is normally executed just once per domain.
OPTIONS
-Y Specify that the domain will be served as both a NIS+
domain as well as an NIS domain using the backward com-
patibility flag. This will set up the domain to be less
secure by making all the system tables readable by
unauthenticated clients as well.
SEE ALSO
nis+(1), nismkdir(1), nistbladm(1), nisaddent(1M),
nisinit(1M) nisserver(1M),
NOTES
While this command creates the default tables, it does not
initialize them with data. This is accomplished with the
nisaddent(1M) command.
It is easier to use the nisserver(1M) script to create sub-
directories and the default tables.
SunOS 5.4 Last change: 22 Feb 1993