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From: Thorsten Steentjes <tst@guug.de>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: NIS Section in Handbook should be more detailed
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>Number:         29215
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       NIS Section in Handbook should be more detailed
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    ue
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jul 25 03:00:01 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:    Sun Oct 28 03:25:33 PST 2001
>Last-Modified:  Sun Oct 28 03:28:06 PST 2001
>Originator:     Thorsten Steentjes
>Release:        4.3-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
Section 18.7.4.2 "NIS Servers" of the FreeBSD Handbook needs to be more
detailed.The installation of a NIS master server is written like a
"step-by-step" tutorial, but there are some missing items.
>How-To-Repeat:
Install a NIS master server like described in the NIS Servers section
and try to update a NIS useraccount, e.g. setting a new password with
yppasswd.
>Fix:
The following steps should be added to the NIS section:
- necessary lines in /etc/rc.conf to start ypbind on the  NIS server and
  bind it to the NIS master with the -S option.
- delete NIS users from /etc/master.passwd after copying it to
  /var/yp/master.passwd
- it's useful to keep a "normal" useraccount in /etc/master.passwd which
  is a member of the wheel group for the situation when the ypserv or
  rpc.yppasswdd dies and you want to logon from a remote machine to
  become root and restart the server processes.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
To: Thorsten Steentjes <tst@guug.de>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/29215: NIS Section in Handbook should be more detailed 
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 05:24:27 -0700

 Thorsten Steentjes <tst@guug.de> writes:
 > >Fix:
 > The following steps should be added to the NIS section:
 > - necessary lines in /etc/rc.conf to start ypbind on the  NIS server and
 >   bind it to the NIS master with the -S option.
 
 This is not true.  An NIS server doesn't have to be a client.  If this
 is added, it should make it clear that this is *optional*.
 
 Other than that, it seems useful.  Care to work up a patch to the
 DocBook source? :-)

From: Thorsten Steentjes <tst@guug.de>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: docs/29215: NIS Section in Handbook should be more detailed
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 18:30:46 +0200

 Am Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 05:24:27AM -0700, schrieb Dima Dorfman :
 > 
 > This is not true.  An NIS server doesn't have to be a client.  If this
 > is added, it should make it clear that this is *optional*.
 > 
 This is very true, it's a optional but very useful feature.
 
 > Other than that, it seems useful.  Care to work up a patch to the
 > DocBook source? :-)
 > 
 Sure, just give me a little time to write a patch cause I'm very
 busy these days.
 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->ue 
Responsible-Changed-By: alex 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Aug 6 06:36:27 PDT 2001 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
ue did a big overhaul of the NIS parts some time ago 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=29215 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: ue 
State-Changed-When: Sun Oct 28 03:25:33 PST 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
The existing chapter has been improved in revision 1.98 of 
advanced-networking/chapter.sgml. 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=29215 
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