Is there a way to add a user to NIS with using adduser?

[eli101]

Hi All,

I trying to add users with a script using the adduser commend, but the problem is that the adduser only adds users to /etc/passwd /etc/shadw etc., but my NIS tables are in a different place
Also if some knows I different way of doing this I would rely appreciate

Any help is appreciate
Eli

 

[mgrun]

Hello

From the command line there is no other way of doing it. Unless you actually edit the tables in your NIS directory. There are a few different tools where you can edit files that are not in /etc. One of those tools is webmin. There you configure the location of your NIS tables.

Good Luck


Micha Micha Grunberg
Unix Sys-Admin

 

[ldoman]

You can use the nistbladm and nisaddcred commands.

Check Sunsovle.sun.com for the specifics. But, basically you will do the following:

nistbladm -a name=newuser passwd="some known encrypted password" uid=999 gid=10 gcos="New User" home=/export/home/newuser shell=/bin/sh passwd.org_dir

nisaddcred -p 999 -P newuser.domain.dev. local
nisaddcred -p unix.999@domainname.dev -P newuser.domain.dev. des

The trailing dots are important where you see them.

 

[eli101]

dose this nisaddcred,nistbladm work on NIS (becuse I use only NIS not NIS+)

 

[lfoata]

nisaddcred is for NIS+.
The easiest way is to edit the NIS files (shadow , passwd , group, auto.home, etc ...) and then do a ypmake. Too bad I.T. is not cash business

Luc Foata
Unix sysadmin, Oracle DBA