I have managed to successfully set[]up an NIS server on FreeBSD 10 as per these instructions: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-nis.html. On another fresh install, I followed the client setup, also 10.0-RELEASE. I can log in to the NIS users I provisioned on the server from my client machine. However, the handbook states that I can add users using
At first I just configure the server as a master server. Then I tried making a client also, pointing to itself. Still no joy.
Is it possible to add users without building the domain from scratch? Why doesn't the documented steps work for me?
pw useradd
or adduser
. But it does not work, it only add users locally, not to the NIS maps. If I want the changes, I need to start again, using ypinit -m mydomain
. Also, yppasswd only changes the passwords locally.At first I just configure the server as a master server. Then I tried making a client also, pointing to itself. Still no joy.
Is it possible to add users without building the domain from scratch? Why do