17.4. Editing NIS Tables

Once your system is running as an NIS master server, you can use this Webmin module to edit records in the tables that it is serving. To see the editable tables, click on the NIS Tables icon, which will take you to a page with a menu of all tables and the contents of one displayed. Other tables can be shown by selecting one of them from the list and clicking the Edit NIS table button.

For most table types, Webmin will parse the contents of their files and display them as a table on the page, with one record per row. You can edit any record by clicking on its name in the first column, or add a new one by clicking the Add a new record link. However, some tables are in a format unknown to Webmin and so will be shown as raw ...

Get Managing Linux® Systems with Webmin™ System Administration and Module Development now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.