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Outline

Introduction

778

Name Services Overview

778

The Name Service Switch File

779

/etc Files

783

NIS

784

The Structure of the NIS Network

784

Determining How Many NIS Servers You Need

785

Determining Which Hosts Will Be NIS Servers

786

Information Managed by NIS

786

Planning Your NIS Domain

790

Configuring an NIS Master Server

791

Creating the Master passwd File

793

Creating the Master Group File

795

Creating the Master hosts File

796

Creating Other Master Files

797

Preparing the Makefile

797

Setting Up the Master Server with ypinit

798

Starting and Stopping NIS on the Master Server

799

Setting Up NIS Clients

800

Setting Up NIS Slave Servers

801

Creating Custom NIS Maps

802

NIS Security

803

The passwd.adjunct Map

803

The securenets File

803

Troubleshooting NIS

804

Binding Problems

804

Server Problems

804

NIS+

805

Hierarchical Namespace

805

NIS+ Security

806

Authentication

806

Authorization

806

DNS

808

Configuring the DNS Client

808

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)

810

Sun Java System Directory Server

811

Setting Up the LDAP Client

812

Modifying the LDAP Client

813

Listing the LDAP Client Properties

814

Uninitializing the LDAP Client

814

Name Service Cache Daemon (nscd)

814

The getent Command

816

Summary

817



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