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freebsd-ports/misc/Howto/files/patch-nis
David E. O'Brien fb6509dd8d This is the result from some discussion in some list (can't remember which)
where someone suggested taking the Linux HOW-TOs and make them applicable
to FreeBSD.

Everyone please feel free to add to this framework.
1998-12-30 04:42:36 +00:00

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--- NIS-HOWTO.sgml.orig Sat Oct 3 10:52:24 1998
+++ NIS-HOWTO.sgml Sat Oct 3 12:56:20 1998
@@ -1,21 +1,20 @@
<!doctype linuxdoc system>
-<!-- This is the Linux NIS-HOWTO. It describes how to install and configure
- Linux as NIS client and server and as NIS+ client.
+<!-- This is the FreeBSD NIS-HOWTO. It describes how to install and configure
+ FreeBSD as NIS client and server.
-->
<article>
-<title>The Linux NIS(YP)/NYS/NIS+ HOWTO
-<author>Thorsten Kukuk
+<title>The FreeBSD NIS(YP) HOWTO
+<author>Linux version by Thorsten Kukuk
<date>v0.12, 12 June 1998
<abstract>
<nidx>HOWTOs!NIS</nidx>
<nidx>HOWTOs!YP</nidx>
-<nidx>HOWTOs!NYS</nidx>
<nidx>HOWTOs!NIS+</nidx>
-This document describes how to configure Linux as NIS(YP) or NIS+ client
+This document describes how to configure FreeBSD as a NIS(YP) client
and how to install as NIS server.
</abstract>
@@ -25,18 +24,17 @@
<sect>Introduction
<p>
-More and more, Linux machines are installed as part of a network of
+More and more, FreeBSD machines are installed as part of a network of
computers. To simplify network administration, most networks (mostly
-Sun-based networks) run the Network Information Service. Linux machines
+Sun-based networks) run the Network Information Service. FreeBSD machines
can take full advantage of existing NIS service or provide NIS service
-themselves. Linux machines can also act as full NIS+ clients, this
-support is in beta stage.
+themselves.
-This document tries to answer questions about setting up NIS(YP) and NIS+
-on your Linux machine. Don't forget to read the section about
+This document tries to answer questions about setting up NIS(YP)
+on your FreeBSD machine. Don't forget to read the section about
<ref id="portmapper" name="the RPC Portmapper">
-The NIS-Howto is edited and maintained by:
+The Linux version of the NIS-Howto is edited and maintained by:
<quote>
Thorsten Kukuk, <tt/kukuk@vt.uni-paderborn.de/
@@ -60,10 +58,7 @@
the URL <url url="http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO.html"
name="http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO.html">.
-New versions of this document will also be uploaded to various
-Linux WWW and FTP sites, including the LDP home page.
-
-Links to translations of this document could be found at
+Links to translations of the Linux document can be found at
<url url="http://www-vt.uni-paderborn.de/~kukuk/linux/nis-howto.html"
name="http://www-vt.uni-paderborn.de/~kukuk/linux/nis-howto.html">.
<sect1>Disclaimer
@@ -86,9 +81,9 @@
document, please let me know so I can correct it in the next
version. Thanks.
-Please do <em/not/ mail me questions about special problems with your Linux
-Distribution! I don't know every Linux Distribution. But I will try to add
-every solution you send me.
+Please do <em/not/ mail Thorsten questions about special problems with FreeBSD.
+The FreeBSD changes to the Linux document were done by the FreeBSD
+Documentation Project. Please send comments to docs@freebsd.org
<sect1>Acknowledgements
@@ -102,25 +97,21 @@
</verb></tscreen>
Theo de Raadt &lt;deraadt@theos.com> is responsible for the original
-yp-clients code. Swen Thuemmler &lt;swen@uni-paderborn.de> ported the
-yp-clients code to Linux and also ported the yp-routines in libc
-(again based on Theo's work). Thorsten Kukuk has written the NIS(YP)
-and NIS+ routines for GNU libc 2.x from scratch.
+yp-clients code.
<sect>Glossary and General Information
<sect1>Glossary of Terms
<nidx>NIS!glossary</nidx>
<nidx>YP!glossary</nidx>
-<nidx>NYS!glossary</nidx>
<nidx>NIS+!glossary</nidx>
-<nidx>glossary!NIS/NYS/YP/NIS+</nidx>
+<nidx>glossary!NIS/YP/NIS+</nidx>
<p>
In this document a lot of acronyms are used. Here are the most
important acronyms and a brief explanation:
<descrip>
-<tag/DBM/DataBase Management, a library of functions which
+<tag/DB/Database Management, a library of functions which
maintain key-content pairs in a data base.
<tag/DLL/Dynamically Linked Library, a library linked to an
@@ -136,8 +127,7 @@
files between two computers.
<tag/libnsl/Name services library, a library of name service calls
- (getpwnam, getservbyname, etc...) on SVR4 Unixes. GNU libc
- uses this for the NIS (YP) and NIS+ functions.
+ (getpwnam, getservbyname, etc...) on SVR4 Unixes.
<tag/libsocket/Socket services library, a library for the socket
service calls (socket, bind, listen, etc...) on SVR4 Unixes.
@@ -153,12 +143,7 @@
replacement for NIS with better security and better handling
of _large_ installations.
-<tag/NYS/This is the name of a project and stands for NIS+, YP and Switch
- and is managed by Peter Eriksson &lt;peter@ifm.liu.se>. It contains
- among other things a complete reimplementation of the NIS (= YP) code
- that uses the Name Services Switch functionality of the NYS library.
-
-<tag/NSS/Name Service Switch. The /etc/nsswitch.conf file determines the order
+<tag/NSS/Name Service Switch. On Solaris, the /etc/nsswitch.conf file determines the order
of lookups performed when a certain piece of information is requested.
<tag/RPC/Remote Procedure Call. RPC routines allow C programs to
@@ -177,7 +162,6 @@
<sect1>Some General Information
<nidx>NIS!general information</nidx>
<nidx>YP!general information</nidx>
-<nidx>NYS!general information</nidx>
<nidx>NIS+!general information</nidx>
<p>
@@ -197,7 +181,7 @@
distributed by NIS is:
<itemize>
-<item>login names/passwords/home directories (/etc/passwd)
+<item>login names/passwords/home directories (/etc/master.passwd)
<item>group information (/etc/group)
</itemize>
@@ -217,37 +201,8 @@
use NIS+ or have severe security needs. NIS+ is _much_ more problematic
to administer (it's pretty easy to handle on the client side, but the
server side is horrible). Another problem is that the support for NIS+
-under Linux is still under developement - you need the latest glibc
-snapshot for it or have to wait for glibc 2.1. There is a port of the
-glibc NIS+ support for libc5 as drop in replacement.
-
-<sect1>libc 4/5 with traditional NIS or NYS ?
-<nidx>libc4/5, use with NIS/NYS</nidx>
-<nidx>NIS/NYS, use with libc4/5</nidx>
-
-<p>
-The choice between "traditional NIS" or the NIS code in the NYS library
-is a choice between laziness and maturity vs. flexibility and love of
-adventure.
-
-The "traditional NIS" code is in the standard C library and has been
-around longer and sometimes suffers from it's age and slight
-inflexibility.
-
-The NIS code in the NYS library requires you to recompile the libc
-library to include the NYS code into the libc library (or maybe you can
-go get a precompiled version of libc from someone who has already done it).
-
-Another difference is that the traditional NIS code has some support
-for NIS Netgroups, which the NYS code doesn't. On the other hand
-the NYS code allows you to handle Shadow Passwords in a transparent
-way. The "traditonal NIS" code doesn't support Shadow Passwords over NIS.
-
-Forgot this all if you use the new GNU C Library 2.x (aka libc6). It
-has real NSS (name switch service) support, which makes it very flexible,
-and contains support for the following NIS/NIS+ maps: aliases, ethers, group,
-hosts, netgroups, networks, protocols, publickey, passwd, rpc, services
-and shadow. The GNU C Library has no problems with shadow passwords over NIS.
+under FreeBSD is still under developement, and is not ready for Alpha testing
+yet.
<sect>How it works
@@ -316,10 +271,9 @@
<p>
To run any of the software mentioned below you will need to run the
-program /usr/sbin/portmap. Some Linux distributions already have
-the code in the /etc/rc.d/ files to start up this daemon.
-All you have to do is to activate it and reboot your Linux machine.
-Read your Linux Distribution Documentation how to do this.
+program /usr/sbin/portmap. In FreeBSD you specify your desire to run the
+Portmapper in /etc/rc.conf.
+All you have to do is to activate it and reboot your FreeBSD machine.
The RPC portmapper (portmap(8)) is a server that converts RPC program
numbers into TCP/IP (or UDP/IP) protocol port numbers. It must be
@@ -365,54 +319,23 @@
ypcat, yppoll, ypmatch). The most important program is ypbind. This
program must be running at all times, that is, it should always appear
in the list of processes. It's a so-called daemon process and needs to
-be started from the system's startup file (eg. /etc/rc.local, /etc/init.d/nis,
-/etc/rc.d/init.d/ypbind).
+be started from the system's startup file (eg. /etc/rc.network).
+You specify your desire to run ypbind in /etc/rc.conf.
As soon as ypbind is running, your system has become a NIS client.
In the second case, if you don't have NIS servers, then you will also
need a NIS server program (usually called ypserv). Section 8 describes
-how to set up a NIS server on your Linux machine using the "ypserv"
-implementation by Peter Eriksson and Thorsten Kukuk.
-Note that from version 0.14 this implementation supports the
-master-slave concept talked about in section 4.1.
-
-There is also another free NIS server available, called "yps", written
-by Tobias Reber in Germany which does support the master-slave concept,
-but has other limitations and isn't supported any longer.
+how to set up a NIS server on your FreeBSD machine using "ypserv".
<sect1>The Software
<nidx>NIS!library requirements</nidx>
<p>
-The system library "/usr/lib/libc.a" (version 4.4.2 and better) or the
-shared library "/lib/libc.so.x" contain all necessary system calls to
-succesfully compile the NIS client and server software. For glibc 2.x,
-you also need /lib/libnsl.so.1.
-
-Some people reported that NIS only works with "/usr/lib/libc.a" version
-4.5.21 and better so if you want to play it safe don't use older
-libc's. The NIS client software can be obtained from:
-
-<tscreen><verb>
- Site Directory File Name
-
- ftp.kernel.org /pub/linux/utils/net/NIS yp-tools-2.0.tar.gz
- ftp.kernel.org /pub/linux/utils/net/NIS ypbind-mt-1.2.tar.gz
- ftp.kernel.org /pub/linux/utils/net/NIS ypbind-3.3.tar.gz
- sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Network/admin yp-clients-2.2.tar.gz
- ftp.uni-paderborn.de /linux/local/yp yp-clients-2.2.tar.gz
- ftp.uni-paderborn.de /linux/local/yp ypbind-3.3.tar.gz
-</verb></tscreen>
+The system libraries "/usr/lib/libc.so.x" and "/usr/lib/libc.a"
+contain all necessary system calls to
+succesfully compile the NIS client and server software.
-Once you obtained the software, please follow the instructions which
-come with the software. yp-clients 2.2 are for use with libc4 and libc5
-until 5.4.20. libc 5.4.21 and glibc 2.x needs yp-tools 1.4.1. The new
-yp-tools 2.0 will work with every Linux libc. Since there was some bugs
-in the NIS code, you shouldn't use libc 5.4.21-5.4.35. Use libc 5.4.36 or
-later instead, or the most YP programs will not work. ypbind 3.3 will
-work with all libraries, too. You should never use the ypbind from
-yp-clients 2.2.
<sect1>The ypbind daemon
<nidx>NIS!ypbind daemon</nidx>
@@ -420,29 +343,15 @@
<nidx>daemon!ypbind</nidx>
<p>
-Assuming you have succesfully compiled the software you are now ready
-to install the software. A suitable place for the ypbind daemon is
-the directory /usr/sbin. Some people may tell you, that you don't need
-ypbind on a system with NYS. This is wrong, ypwhich and ypcat need it.
-
-You'll need to do this as root of course. The other binaries (ypwhich,
-ypcat, yppoll, ypmatch) should go in a directory accessible by all
-users, normally /usr/bin.
-
-The ypbind process has a configuration file called /etc/yp.conf. You can
-hardcode a NIS server there - for more info see the manual page for ypbind(8).
-You also need this file for NYS.
-An example:
-<tscreen><verb>
- ypserver voyager
- ypserver ds9
-</verb></tscreen>
+The ypbind process can be forced to bind to a specific NIS server by specifing
+the server in /etc/rc.conf.
+For more info see the manual page for ypbind(8).
If the system could resolv the hostnames without NIS, you could use
the name, else you have to use the IP address.
-It might be a good idea to test ypbind before incorporating it in the
-/etc/rc.d/ files. To test ypbind do the following:
+It might be a good idea to test ypbind before incorporating it in the
+/etc/rc.conf files. To test ypbind do the following:
<itemize>
<item>Make sure you have your domain name set. If it is not set then
@@ -500,15 +409,10 @@
This directory MUST exist for ypbind to start up succesfully.
-To check if the domainname is set correct, use the /bin/ypdomainname from
-yp-tools 2.0. It uses the yp_get_default_domain function, which is more
-restrict. It doesn't allow for example the "(none)" domainname, which
-is the default under Linux and makes a lot of problems.
-
-If the test worked you may now want to change the files in /etc/rc.d/
+If the test worked you may now want to change the /etc/rc.conf file
on your system so that ypbind will be started up at boot time and your
system will act as a NIS client. Make sure, that the domainname will
-be set at boot time.
+be set at boot time (also set in /etc/rc.conf).
Well, that's it. Reboot the machine and watch the boot messages to see
if ypbind is actually started.
@@ -519,20 +423,20 @@
<p>
For host lookups you must set (or add) "nis" to the lookup order line
-in your /etc/host.conf file. Please read the manpage "resolv+.8" for
+in your /etc/host.conf file. Please see the comments in /etc/host.conf
more details.
-Add the following line to /etc/passwd on your NIS clients:
+Add the following line to /etc/master.passwd using vipw on your NIS clients:
<tscreen><verb>
-+::::::
++:::::::::
</verb></tscreen>
You can also use the + and - characters to include/exclude or change
users. If you want to exclude the user guest just add -guest to your
-/etc/passwd file. You want to use a different shell (e.g. ksh) for
-the user "linux"? No problem, just add "+linux::::::/bin/ksh"
-(without the quotes) to your /etc/passwd. Fields that you don't want
+/etc/master.passwd file. You want to use a different shell (e.g. sh) for
+the user "ken"? No problem, just add "+ken:::::::::/usr/local/bin/bash"
+(without the quotes) to your /etc/master.passwd using vipw. Fields that you don't want
to change have to be left empty. You could also use Netgroups for
user control.
@@ -541,343 +445,22 @@
of all other users available:
<tscreen><verb>
- +miquels:::::::
- +ed:::::::
- +dth:::::::
- +@sysadmins:::::::
- -ftp
- +:*::::::/etc/NoShell
+ +dennis:::::::::
+ +@sysadmins:::::::::
+ -ftp:::::::::
+ +@rejected-users::32767:32767::::::/bin/false
</verb></tscreen>
-Note that in Linux you can also override the password field, as we did
+Note that in FreeBSD you can also override the password field, as we did
in this example. In this example, we also remove the login "ftp", so
it isn't known any longer, and anonymous ftp will not work.
+See the ``man 5 passwd'' for further explantion and more examples.
The netgroup would be look like
<tscreen><verb>
sysadmins (-,software,) (-,kukuk,)
</verb></tscreen>
-IMPORTANT: Note that the netgroup feature is implemented starting
-from libc 4.5.26. But if you have a version of libc earlier than 4.5.26,
-every user in the NIS password database can access your linux machine if
-you run "ypbind".
-
-
-<sect1>Setting up a NIS Client using NYS
-<nidx>NYS!client setup</nidx>
-
-<p>
-All that is required is that the NIS configuration file
-(/etc/yp.conf) points to the correct server(s) for its information.
-Also, the Name Services Switch configuration file (/etc/nsswitch.conf)
-must be correctly set up.
-
-You should install ypbind. It isn't needed by the libc, but the NIS(YP)
-tools need it.
-
-If you wish to use the include/exclude user feature (+/-guest/+@admins),
-you have to use "passwd: compat" and "group: compat". Note, that there
-is no "shadow: compat" ! You have to use "shadow: files nis" in this
-case.
-
-The NYS sources are part of the libc 5 sources. When run configure,
-say the first time "NO" to the "Values correct" question,
-then say "YES" to "Build a NYS libc from nys".
-
-<sect1>Setting up a NIS Client using glibc 2.x
-<nidx>NIS!client setup!using glibc 2.x</nidx>
-
-<p>
-The glibc uses "traditional NIS", so you need to start ypbind. The
-Name Services Switch configuration file (/etc/nsswitch.conf) must be
-correctly set up. If you use the compat mode for passwd, shadow or group,
-you have to add the "+" at the end of this files, and you could use
-the include/exclude user feature. The configuration is excatly the same
-as under Solaris 2.x.
-
-<sect1>The nsswitch.conf File
-<nidx>nsswitch.conf file</nidx>
-<nidx>NIS!nsswitch.conf file</nidx>
-
-<p>
-The Network Services switch file /etc/nsswitch.conf determines the
-order of lookups performed when a certain piece of information is
-requested, just like the /etc/host.conf file which determines the way
-host lookups are performed. For example, the line
-
-<tscreen><verb>
- hosts: files nis dns
-</verb></tscreen>
-
-specifies that host lookup functions should first look in the local
-/etc/hosts file, followed by a NIS lookup and finally thru the domain
-name service (/etc/resolv.conf and named), at which point if no match
-is found an error is returned. This file must be readable for every
-user !
-
-A good /etc/nsswitch.conf file for NIS is:
-<tscreen><verb>
-#
-# /etc/nsswitch.conf
-#
-# An example Name Service Switch config file. This file should be
-# sorted with the most-used services at the beginning.
-#
-# The entry '[NOTFOUND=return]' means that the search for an
-# entry should stop if the search in the previous entry turned
-# up nothing. Note that if the search failed due to some other reason
-# (like no NIS server responding) then the search continues with the
-# next entry.
-#
-# Legal entries are:
-#
-# nisplus Use NIS+ (NIS version 3)
-# nis Use NIS (NIS version 2), also called YP
-# dns Use DNS (Domain Name Service)
-# files Use the local files
-# db Use the /var/db databases
-# [NOTFOUND=return] Stop searching if not found so far
-#
-
-passwd: compat
-group: compat
-shadow: compat
-
-passwd_compat: nis
-group_compat: nis
-shadow_compat: nis
-
-hosts: nis files dns
-
-services: nis [NOTFOUND=return] files
-networks: nis [NOTFOUND=return] files
-protocols: nis [NOTFOUND=return] files
-rpc: nis [NOTFOUND=return] files
-ethers: nis [NOTFOUND=return] files
-netmasks: nis [NOTFOUND=return] files
-netgroup: nis
-bootparams: nis [NOTFOUND=return] files
-publickey: nis [NOTFOUND=return] files
-automount: files
-aliases: nis [NOTFOUND=return] files
-</verb></tscreen>
-
-passwd_compat, group_compat and shadow_compat are only supported by glibc 2.x.
-If there are no shadow rules in /etc/nsswitch.conf, glibc will use the passwd
-rule for lookups. There are some more lookup module for glibc like hesoid.
-For more information, read the glibc documentation.
-
-<sect> Shadow Passwords with NIS and PAM
-<nidx>NIS!shadow passwords</nidx>
-<nidx>PAM!shadow passwords</nidx>
-<p>
-Shadow passwords over NIS are always a bad idea. You lost the security,
-which shadow gives you. A good way to avoid shadow passwords over NIS is,
-to put only the local system users in /etc/shadow. Remove the NIS user
-entries from the shadow database, and put the password back in passwd.
-So you could use shadow for the root login, and normal passwd for NIS
-user. This has the advantage, that it will work with every NIS client.
-
-If this is not an option for you, you need the GNU C Library 2.x. This
-is the only Linux libc, which supports shadow passwords over NIS. Linux
-libc5 has no support for it. Linux libc5 compiled with NYS enabled has
-some code for it. But this code is badly broken in some cases and doesn't
-work with all correct shadow entries.
-
-The next problem is PAM. The GNU C Library support Shadow passwords over
-NIS, but PAM does not, especially pam_pwdb/libpwdb. This is a big problem
-for RedHat 5.x users. If you have glibc and PAM, you need to change the
-/etc/pam.d/* entries. Replace all pam_pwdb rules through pam_auth_unix_*
-modules. This will work.
-
-
-<sect> What do you need to set up NIS+ ?
-
-<sect1>The Software
-<nidx>NIS+!software required</nidx>
-
-<p>
-The Linux NIS+ client code was developed for the GNU C library 2.
-There is also a port for Linux libc5, since all commercial Applications
-are linked against this library, and you couldn't recompile them for
-using glibc. There are problems with libc5 and NIS+: You couldn't link
-static programs with it, and programs compiled with this library will
-not work with other libc5 versions.
-
-
-You need to retrieve and compile the latest GNU C library 2 snapshot.
-And you need a glibc based system like RedHat 5.x or the upcoming
-Debian 2.0. But be warned: This is beta Software ! Read the Docs about
-glibc snapshots and from the Distributions ! glibc 2.0.x doesn't contain
-the NIS+ support, and will never contain it. The first public version
-with NIS+ support will be 2.1.
-
-The NIS+ client software can be obtained from:
-<tscreen><verb>
- Site Directory File Name
-
- ftp.kernel.org /pub/software/libs/glibc libc-*, glibc-crypt-*,
- glibc-linuxthreads-*
- ftp.kernel.org /pub/linux/utils/net/NIS+ nis-tools-1.4.2.tar.gz
- ftp.kernel.org /pub/linux/utils/net/NIS+ pam_keylogin-1.2.tar.gz
-</verb></tscreen>
-
-Distributions based on glibc can be fetched from:
-<tscreen><verb>
- Site Directory
-
- ftp.redhat.com /pub/redhat/redhat-5.1
- ftp.debian.org /pub/debian/dists/hamm
-</verb></tscreen>
-
-For compilation of the GNU C Library, please follow the instructions
-which come with the software. Here you could find the patched libc5,
-based on NYS and the glibc sources as drop in replacement for the
-standart libc5:
-
-<tscreen><verb>
- Site Directory File Name
-
- ftp.kernel.org /pub/linux/utils/net/NIS+ libc-5.4.44-nsl-0.4.10.tar.gz
-</verb></tscreen>
-
-You should also look at
- <url url="http://www-vt.uni-paderborn.de/~kukuk/linux/nisplus.html"
- name="http://www-vt.uni-paderborn.de/~kukuk/linux/nisplus.html">
-for more information and the latest sources.
-
-<sect1>Setting up a NIS+ client
-<nidx>NIS+!client setup</nidx>
-
-<p>
-IMPORTANT: For setting up a NIS+ client, read your Solaris NIS+ docs
-what to do on the server side ! This document only describes what to do
-on the client side !
-
-After installing the new libc and nis-tools, create the credentials for
-the new client on the NIS+ server. Make sure, portmap is running. Then
-check, if your Linux PC has the same time as the NIS+ Server. For secure RPC,
-you have only a small window from about 3 minutes, in which the credentials
-are valid. A good idea is to run xntpd on every host. After this, run
-
-<tscreen><verb>
-domainname nisplus.domain.
-nisinit -c -H <NIS+ server>
-</verb></tscreen>
-
-to initialize the cold Start File. Read the nisinit man page for more
-options. Make sure, that the domainname will always be set after a reboot.
-If you don't know what the NIS+ domain name is on your network, ask
-your system/network administrator.
-
-Now you should change your /etc/nsswitch.conf file. Make sure, that the
-only service after publickey is nisplus ("publickey: nisplus"), and nothing
-else !
-
-After this, start keyserv and make sure, that it will always be started
-at boot time. Run
-<tscreen><verb>
-keylogin -r
-</verb></tscreen>
-to store the root secretkey on your system. (I hope you have added the
-publickey for the new host on the NIS+ Server ?).
-
-"niscat passwd.org_dir" should now show you all entries in the passwd database.
-
-
-<sect1>NIS+, keylogin, login and PAM
-<nidx>NIS+!use of PAM with</nidx>
-
-<p>
-When the user logs in, he need to set his secretkey to keyserv. This is done
-by calling "keylogin". The login from the shadow package will do this for the
-user. For a PAM aware login, you have to install pam_keylogin-1.1.tar.gz
-and change the /etc/pam.d/login file to use pam_unix_auth, not pwdb, which
-doesn't support NIS+. An example:
-
-<tscreen><verb>
-#%PAM-1.0
-auth required /lib/security/pam_securetty.so
-auth required /lib/security/pam_keylogin.so
-auth required /lib/security/pam_unix_auth.so
-auth required /lib/security/pam_nologin.so
-account required /lib/security/pam_unix_acct.so
-password required /lib/security/pam_unix_passwd.so
-session required /lib/security/pam_unix_session.so
-</verb></tscreen>
-
-
-<sect1>The nsswitch.conf File
-<nidx>nsswitch.conf file</nidx>
-<nidx>NIS+!nsswitch.conf file</nidx>
-
-<p>
-The Network Services switch file /etc/nsswitch.conf determines the
-order of lookups performed when a certain piece of information is
-requested, just like the /etc/host.conf file which determines the way
-host lookups are performed. For example, the line
-
-<tscreen><verb>
- hosts: files nisplus dns
-</verb></tscreen>
-
-specifies that host lookup functions should first look in the local
-/etc/hosts file, followed by a NIS+ lookup and finally thru the domain
-name service (/etc/resolv.conf and named), at which point if no match
-is found an error is returned.
-
-A good /etc/nsswitch.conf file for NIS+ is:
-<tscreen><verb>
-#
-# /etc/nsswitch.conf
-#
-# An example Name Service Switch config file. This file should be
-# sorted with the most-used services at the beginning.
-#
-# The entry '[NOTFOUND=return]' means that the search for an
-# entry should stop if the search in the previous entry turned
-# up nothing. Note that if the search failed due to some other reason
-# (like no NIS server responding) then the search continues with the
-# next entry.
-#
-# Legal entries are:
-#
-# nisplus Use NIS+ (NIS version 3)
-# nis Use NIS (NIS version 2), also called YP
-# dns Use DNS (Domain Name Service)
-# files Use the local files
-# db Use the /var/db databases
-# [NOTFOUND=return] Stop searching if not found so far
-#
-
-passwd: compat
-# for libc5: passwd: files nisplus
-group: compat
-# for libc5: group: files nisplus
-shadow: compat
-# for libc5: shadow: files nisplus
-
-passwd_compat: nisplus
-group_compat: nisplus
-shadow_compat: nisplus
-
-hosts: nisplus files dns
-
-services: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
-networks: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
-protocols: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
-rpc: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
-ethers: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
-netmasks: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
-netgroup: nisplus
-bootparams: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
-publickey: nisplus
-automount: files
-aliases: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
-</verb></tscreen>
-
-
<sect>Setting up a NIS Server
<nidx>NIS!server setup</nidx>
@@ -888,36 +471,14 @@
<p>
This document only describes how to set up the "ypserv" NIS server.
-The NIS server software can be found on:
-
-<tscreen><verb>
- Site Directory File Name
-
- ftp.kernel.org /pub/linux/utils/net/NIS ypserv-1.3.2.tar.gz
- wauug.erols.com /pub/net/nis ypserv-1.3.2.tar.gz
-</verb></tscreen>
-
-You could also look at
- <url url="http://www-vt.uni-paderborn.de/~kukuk/linux/nis.html"
- name="http://www-vt.uni-paderborn.de/~kukuk/linux/nis.html">
-for more information.
+The NIS server software can be found as /usr/sbin/ypserv.
-The server setup is the same for both traditional NIS and NYS.
-
-Compile the software to generate the "ypserv" and "makedbm"
-programs. If you run your server as master, determine what files you
+If you run your server as master, determine what files you
require to be available via NIS and then add or remove the appropriate
entries to the <tt>/var/yp/Makefile</tt>.
-There was one big change between ypserv 1.1 and ypserv 1.2. Since 1.2,
-ypserv caches the file handles. This means, you have to call makedbm with
-the -c option always if you create new maps. Make sure, you are using the
-new <tt>/var/yp/Makefile</tt> from ypserv 1.2 or later, or add the -c flag
-to makedbm in the Makefile. If you don't do that, ypserv will continue to
-use the old maps, and not the new one.
-
-Now edit /var/yp/securenets and /etc/ypserv.conf.
-For more information, read the ypserv(8) and ypserv.conf(5) manual pages.
+Now edit /var/yp/securenets and /etc/rc.conf.
+For more information, read the ypserv(8) manual page and /etc/rc.conf comments.
Make sure the portmapper (portmap(8)) is running, and start the
server "ypserv". The command
@@ -935,13 +496,13 @@
Now generate the NIS (YP) database. On the master, run
<tscreen><verb>
- % /usr/lib/yp/ypinit -m
+ % /usr/sbin/ypinit -m
</verb></tscreen>
On a slave, make sure that ypwhich -m works. This means, that your slave
must be configured as NIS client before you could run
<tscreen><verb>
- % /usr/lib/yp/ypinit -s masterhost
+ % /usr/sbin/ypinit -s masterhost
</verb></tscreen>
to install the host as NIS slave.
@@ -953,13 +514,13 @@
wrong.
-You might want to edit root's crontab *on the slave* server and add the
+You might want to edit the system crontab (/etc/crontab) *on the slave* server and add the
following lines:
<tscreen><verb>
- 20 * * * * /usr/lib/yp/ypxfr_1perhour
- 40 6 * * * /usr/lib/yp/ypxfr_1perday
- 55 6,18 * * * /usr/lib/yp/ypxfr_2perday
+ 20 * * * * root /usr/libexec/ypxfr passwd.byname
+ 21 * * * * root /usr/libexec/ypxfr passwd.byuid
+ 55 19 * * * root /usr/libexec/ypxfr hosts.ypname
</verb></tscreen>
This will ensure that most NIS maps are kept up-to-date, even if an
update is missed because the slave was down at the time the update was
@@ -968,14 +529,14 @@
You could add a slave at every time later. At first, make sure that
the new ypserv has permissions to contact the NIS master. Then run
<tscreen><verb>
- % /usr/lib/yp/ypinit -s masterhost
+ % /usr/sbin/ypinit -s masterhost
</verb></tscreen>
on the new slave, and add the server name to /var/yp/ypservers.
After this, run make in /var/yp to update the maps.
If you want to restrict access for users to your NIS server, you'll have
to setup the NIS server as a client as well by running ypbind and adding the
-plus-entries to /etc/passwd _halfway_ the password file. The library
+plus-entries to /etc/master.passwd _halfway_ the password file. The library
functions will ignore all normal entries after the first NIS entry, and
will get the rest of the info through NIS. This way the NIS access rules
are maintained. example:
@@ -993,65 +554,28 @@
news:*:9:9:news:/var/spool/news:
uucp:*:10:50:uucp:/var/spool/uucp:
nobody:*:65534:65534:noone at all,,,,:/dev/null:
- +miquels::::::
- +:*:::::/etc/NoShell
+ +dennis:::::::::
+ +*:::::::::/bin/false
[ All normal users AFTER this line! ]
tester:*:299:10:Just a test account:/tmp:
- miquels:1234567890123:101:10:Miquel van Smoorenburg:/home/miquels:/bin/zsh
+ obrien:1765:01:10::0:0:David O'Brien:/home/obrien:/bin/sh
</verb></tscreen>
-The user tester will exist, but have a shell of /etc/NoShell. miquels
+The user tester will exist, but have a shell of /bin/false. obrien
will have normal access.
Alternatively, you could edit the /var/yp/Makefile file and set NIS to use
another source password file. On big systems, the NIS password and group
-files are usually stored in /var/yp/ypfiles/. If you do this the normal
+files are sometimes stored in /var/yp/ypfiles/. If you do this the normal
tools to administrate the password file such as "passwd", "chfn",
"adduser" will not work anymore and you will need special homemade tools
for this.
However yppasswd, ypchsh and ypchfn will work ofcourse.
-<sect1>The Server Program yps
-<nidx>NIS!yps server</nidx>
-<nidx>yps NIS server</nidx>
-<p>
-To set up the "yps" NIS server please refer to the previous paragraph.
-The "yps" server setup is similar, _but_ not exactly the same so
-beware if you try to apply the "ypserv" instructions to "yps"!
-"yps" is not supported by any author, and contains some security leaks.
-You shouldn't really use it !
-
-The "yps" NIS server software can be found on:
-
-<tscreen><verb>
- Site Directory File Name
-
- ftp.lysator.liu.se /pub/NYS/servers yps-0.21.tar.gz
-</verb></tscreen>
-
-
-<sect1>The Program rpc.yppasswdd
-
-<p>
-Whenever users change their passwords, the NIS password database and
-probably other NIS databases, which depend on the NIS password
-database, should be updated. The program "rpc.yppasswdd" is a server that
-handles password changes and makes sure that the NIS information will
-be updated accordingly. rpc.yppasswdd is now integrated in ypserv. You
-don't need the older, separate yppasswd-0.9.tar.gz or yppasswd-0.10.tar.gz,
-and you shouldn't use them any longer. The rpc.yppasswdd in ypserv 1.3.2
-has full shadow support. yppasswd is now part of yp-tools-2.0.tar.gz,
-
-You need to start rpc.yppasswdd only on the NIS master server. By default,
-users are not allowed to change their full name or the login shell.
-You could allow this with the -e chfn or -e chsh option.
-
-
<sect>Verifying the NIS/NYS Installation
<nidx>NIS!verification of operation</nidx>
-<nidx>NYS!verification of operation</nidx>
<p>
If everything is fine (as it should be), you should be able to verify
@@ -1069,9 +593,7 @@
</verb></tscreen>
(where userid is the login name of an arbitrary user) should give you
-the user's entry in the NIS passwd file. The "ypcat" and "ypmatch"
-programs should be included with your distribution of traditional
-NIS or NYS.
+the user's entry in the NIS passwd file.
If a user couldn't log in, run the following program on the client:
<tscreen><verb>
@@ -1118,49 +640,6 @@
<nidx>NIS!troubleshooting</nidx>
<nidx>NIS!problems with</nidx>
-<p>
-Here are some common problems reported by various users:
-
-<enum>
-<item>The libraries for 4.5.19 are broken. NIS won't work with it.
-
-<item>If you upgrade the libraries from 4.5.19 to 4.5.24 then the
- su command breaks. You need to get the su command from the
- slackware 1.2.0 distribution. Incidentally that's where you
- can get the updated libraries.
-
-<item>You could run into trouble with NIS and DNS on the same machine
- using an old a.out distribution. The DNS server occasionally will
- not bring up NIS.
-
-<item>When a NIS server goes down and comes up again ypbind starts
- complaining with messages like:
-
- <verb>
- yp_match: clnt_call:
- RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused
- </verb>
-
- and logins are refused for those who are registered in the
- NIS database. Try to login as root and if you succeed, then kill
- ypbind and start it up again. An update to ypbind 3.3 or higher
- should also help.
-
-<item>After upgrade the libc to a version greater then 5.4.20, the YP tools
- will not work any longer. You need yp-tools 1.2 or later for
- libc >= 5.4.21 and glibc 2.x and yp-clients 2.2. for earlier versions.
- yp-tools 2.0 should work for all libraries.
-
-<item>In libc 5.4.21 - 5.4.35 yp_maplist is broken, you need 5.4.36 or later,
- or some YP programs like ypwhich will seg.fault.
-
-<item>libc 5 with traditional NIS doesn't support shadow passwords over NIS.
- You need libc5 + NYS or glibc 2.x.
-<item>ypcat shadow doesn't show the shadow map. This is correct, the name of
- the shadow map is shadow.byname, not shadow.
-</enum>
-
-
<sect>Frequently Asked Questions
<nidx>NIS!frequently asked questions</nidx>
@@ -1169,15 +648,13 @@
questions unanswered you might want to post a message to
<tscreen><verb>
- comp.os.linux.help
+ freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
</verb></tscreen>
or
<tscreen><verb>
- comp.os.linux.networking
+ hackers@FreeBSD.org
</verb></tscreen>
-
-or contact one of the authors of this HOWTO.
</article>