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| Thank your for your replies, Marc. Very helpful.
Some questions inline.
"Marc Girod" <marc.girod@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1185801653.896882.54930@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
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> I don't know.
> I'd try it, i.e. in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
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> passwd: files nisplus nis
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> domainname: returns your domain name
What would it return if it is nisplus client or if not a client for
nis or nisplus?
Or if LDAP is being used?
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> You can at least check whether it is nis (aka v 2):
> ypwhich -V 2
This seems to return the nis server name.
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> I guess 'nisswitch -V 3' should work in the same way...
I don't seem to have nisswitch on my machines
These are the binaries starting with nis which are present
nisaddcred nischown nisgrep nismatch nisprefadm nistest
niscat nischttl nisgrpadm nismkdir nisrm
nischgrp nisdefaults nisln nispasswd nisrmdir
nischmod niserror nisls nispath nistbladm
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> ypwhich: returns the name of your server (currently bound, I guess)
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> nisswich
Again, no nisswich on the machine.
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> Yes. From man 8 ypbind (describing /etc/yp.conf):
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> domain nisdomain server hostname
> Use server hostname for the domain nisdomain. You
> could have
> more then one entry of this type for a single domain.
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> I guess so.
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