nissetup — Initialize an NIS+ Domain

Synopsis

/usr/lib/nis/nissetup [-Y][domain]

Description

Use the nissetup shell script to set up an NIS+ domain to service clients that want to store system administration information in a domain named domain. This domain should already exist before you execute the nissetup command (see nismkdir(1) and nisinit(1M)).

An NIS+ domain consists of an NIS+ directory and its org_dir and groups_dir subdirectories. org_dir stores system administration information, and groups_dir stores information for group access control.

nissetup creates the subdirectories org_dir and groups_dir in domain. Both subdirectories are replicated on the same servers as the parent domain. After the subdirectories are created, nissetup ...

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