Setting Up an NIS Server

Setting up an NIS server involves the following steps:

  1. Set a domain name for NIS using domainname.

  2. Edit the ypMakefile, which identifies which databases to build and what sources to use in building them.

  3. Copy the ypMakefile to /var/yp/Makefile.

  4. Run make from the /var/yp directory, which builds the databases and initializes the server.

  5. Start ypserv, the NIS server daemon.

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