Command-line Utilities in Server for NIS

• Server for NIS
  • Overview of Server for NIS
  • Best Practices for Server for NIS
  • Server for NIS Administration
    • Configuring a UNIX NIS Server to Use Server for NIS as the Master Server
    • Configuring UNIX Clients to Use Server for NIS as the Master Server
    • Adding or removing UNIX subordinate servers
    • Change a subordinate server to a master server
    • Manage NIS Maps
      • Migrating NIS domains
      • Add a group to an NIS domain
      • Set the encryption method for a domain
      • Changing the frequency of map updates
      • Propagate selected maps now
      • Propagate changed maps now
      • Use ypmatch to view an entry in an NIS map
      • Use ypcat to print values in an NIS map
      • Edit maps
        • Edit passwd, group, and host map entries
        • Edit standard and nonstandard map entries using the command line interface
        • Create the structure of a nonstandard map
      • Manage NIS users
        • Add a user to an NIS domain
        • Change a user's ID (UID)
        • Change a user's default shell
        • Change a user's home directory
      • Manage NIS groups
        • Add one or more groups to an NIS domain
        • Change a group's ID (GID)
        • Add or remove members of a group
      • Manage NIS computers
        • Add a computer to a domain
        • Specify the IP address of a computer in a domain
        • Specify the alias of a computer in a domain
  • Server for NIS Concepts
    • Understanding Server for NIS
      • Understanding NIS
      • Master and subordinate server modes
    • Understanding NIS Data Migration
      • Migrating NIS to Active Directory Domain Services
      • Migrating and Managing Standard and Nonstandard Maps
      • Resolving Migration Conflicts
      • Handling special user types during migration
    • Administering Server for NIS
      • Synchronizing user passwords
      • Setting UNIX passwords to special values
      • Synchronizing and propagating NIS changes
      • Sending periodic map updates to subordinate NIS servers
      • Pushing map updates immediately
  • Command-line Utilities in Server for NIS
    • nisadmin
    • nis2ad
    • ypclear
    • yppush
    • ypmatch
    • ypcat
    • nismap
  • Server for NIS Troubleshooting