nissetup(1M) System Administration Commands nissetup(1M)NAMEnissetup - initialize a NIS+ domain
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/nis/nissetup [-Y] [domain]
DESCRIPTIONnissetup 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 execut‐
ing this command. See nismkdir(1) and nisinit(1M).
A NIS+ domain consists of a NIS+ directory and its subdirectories:
org_dir and groups_dir. org_dir stores system administration informa‐
tion 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 par‐
ent 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, net‐
works, 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 are created
at setup time.
This command is normally executed just once per domain.
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 subdirectories
and the default tables.
OPTIONS-Y Specify that the domain will be served as both a NIS+ domain as
well as an NIS domain using the backward compatibility flag. This
will set up the domain to be less secure by making all the system
tables readable by unauthenticated clients as well.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │SUNWnisu │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSONIS+(1), nismkdir(1), nistbladm(1), nisaddent(1M), nisinit(1M) nis‐
server(1M), attributes(5)NOTES
NIS+ might not be supported in future releases of the Solaris Operating
system. Tools to aid the migration from NIS+ to LDAP are available in
the current Solaris release. For more information, visit
http://www.sun.com/directory/nisplus/transition.html.
SunOS 5.10 13 Dec 2001 nissetup(1M)