NYS Tips

Grant Taylor, <gtaylor@picante.com>

1. Introduction

2. How do I use the NYS/NIS system that comes with Red Hat?

• 2.1 What is yp? NIS? NIS+? NYS?
• 2.2 What is offered?
• 2.3 How the heck do I get ypbind to work properly? How do I set up a client workstation?
• 2.4 ypcat and ypmatch don't work!
• 2.5 How do I run ypserv?
• 2.6 Where's yppasswd and yppasswdd?
• 2.7 This information is miserably incomplete!

3. Copyright Notice