Adding NIS+ users

[DedeMole]

Hi..
Can anyone tell me how to add NIS+ users to my server AND to my clients.... I'm very new to being a Solaris 8 LAN administrator... The server is setup with NIS+ and I think so are the workstations. I'm running Solaris 8 on all the machines.. I don't know NIS+ at all so I'm very confused on how to set up a group called Students with users called stud01 to stud12.... I know I have to do something to the server but I have no clue what and I think I have to setup something on the clients, but don't know what... Any and all help is greatly appriciated.

thanks

 

[jad]

my addnisplususer.sh

#!/bin/ksh
#************* addnisusers.sh ***************
# addnisuser.sh - ksh script for add user to
# NIS+ without Solstice AdminSuite
#********************************************
EUID=`id|awk -F\( '{print substr($1,5)}'`
if [ $EUID = 0 ] ; then
# get the domainname (minus the trailing . if necessary
  DNAME=`domainname | xargs -I {} basename {} "\."`

#
# Variables need to be gathered to create a new user.
# Notably the Group (to get the GID), the UID,
#   the Comment, the Shell and the Password
#
  echo "GROUPS: \c"
  niscat group.org_dir|nawk -F: '{print $1" "}'|xargs
  echo "GROUP: [grp1]\c"
  read GROUP 
  GROUP=${GROUP:-"grp1"}
  GID=`niscat group.org_dir|grep ^$GROUP:|nawk -F: '{print $3}'`
  if [ -z $GID ]
  then 
    echo Group $GROUP does not exist !!!
    exit
  fi
  echo "USERS: \c"
  niscat passwd.org_dir|grep :$GID:|nawk -F: '{print $1}'|xargs
  echo "NAME: \c"
  read NAME
  echo "IDS: \c"
  niscat passwd.org_dir|grep :$GID:|nawk -F: '{print $3}'|sort -n|xargs
  echo "ID: \c"
  read ID
  echo "REAL NAME: \c"
  read COMMENT
  echo "SHELL: [/bin/csh] \c"
  read SHELL
  SHELL=${SHELL:-"/bin/csh"}
  echo "PASSWORD: \c"
  stty -echo
  read PASS
  stty echo
#
# All variables should now have been gathered
#
  CODE=`perl -e '
    srand;
    $s1= ($rnd=rand(62)) > 9 ? $rnd > 25 ? $rnd + 49 : $rnd + 17 : $rnd;
    $s2= ($rnd=rand(62)) > 9 ? $rnd > 25 ? $rnd + 49 : $rnd + 17 : $rnd;
    print crypt($ARGV[0], chr($s1+48) . chr($s2+48));
  ' $PASS`

#
# HNAME is the host server for the home directory
# EXPHOME is the directory path on the host server for home directories
#
  case $GROUP in
	grp1) EXPHOME=/export/grp1home;
             HNAME=svr1;;
	grp2) EXPHOME=/export/grp2home;
             HNAME=svr1;;
	grp3) EXPHOME=/export/grp3home;
             HNAME=svr2;;
  esac

  echo ""

  nistbladm -a key=$NAME value=$HNAME:$EXPHOME/$NAME auto_home.org_dir > /dev/null
  nistbladm -a name=$NAME passwd=$CODE uid=$ID gid=$GID gcos="$COMMENT" shell=$SHELL home=/home/$NAME passwd.org_dir > /dev/null
  nisaddcred -p $ID -P $NAME.$DNAME. -l $PASS local > /dev/null
  nisaddcred -p unix.$ID@$DNAME -P $NAME.$DNAME. -l $PASS des > /dev/null
  nischown $NAME [name=$NAME],passwd.org_dir > /dev/null
  nischmod n-r,w-r,g+r [name=$NAME],passwd.org_dir > /dev/null
  nistbladm -u passwd=n-r,w-r,g+r passwd.org_dir > /dev/null

  if [ "x$HNAME" = "x`uname -n`" ] ; then
    echo "     mkdir -p $EXPHOME/$NAME 2>/dev/null
     cp /etc/skel/.[a-z]* $EXPHOME/$NAME
     chown -R $NAME:$GROUP $EXPHOME/$NAME
    " ;
  else
    echo "On Server $HNAME:
     mkdir -p $EXPHOME/$NAME 2>/dev/null
     cp /etc/skel/.[a-z]* $EXPHOME/$NAME
     chown -R $NAME:$GROUP $EXPHOME/$NAME
    "
  fi

else
  echo "You must be root"
fi
#******** end of addnisuser.sh *********

you do not need to modify the clients.
because of how my site works we have 2 servers that have home directories, and peoples home directories are created by which group they're in.

this script is the easiest way i've found for adding users at the prompt.

 

[DedeMole]

jad
thank you thank you thank you.... I'm going now to try this out... Oooooo thank you.... I'll let you know soon...

dede