is there an account manager for NIS? 1

[InigoMontoya]

I can add users to the NIS environment quite easily. But when it's time remove users I have to go through a lengthy process of removing entries in different NIS map files. Is there a tool similar to the admintool...or even a text based menu driven tool that manages user accounts on NIS for Solaris?

 

[crasho2001]

Hi,

I do not know that kind of tool. What about a script like below.
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#!/bin/sh
user=$1
if [ "`/usr/ucb/whoami`" != "root" ]; then
echo "Only root can run this script"
exit 1
fi

if [ "$user" = "" ]; then
echo " Give a user name:"
exit 1
fi

/usr/sbin/userdel $user
[ ! $? = 0 ] && exit 1

rm -rf /usr/home/$user

rm -f /var/mail/$user

cd /var/yp; make
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[jad]

umm ... SMC (system management console) will do it if you have Solstice Admin suite installed.

as it happens i prefer to do it at the prompt

crasho2001 is right in some ways (although his script won't do NIS) in that you could create a script to do it all for you.

 

[InigoMontoya]

I ended up writing my own menu driven (select) script to manage the NIS accounts.

 

[jad]

can you post it?

it might help others.

Jon

 

[InigoMontoya]

It's too big to post on here. It's functional but big and clunky. I didn't really spend the time to streamline but I'm working on that. Also I'm only a beginner in scripting. Regardless...I'll be more than happy to email to anyone that wants it. Once I have it thinned out I'll post it.