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All About Administering NIS+, 2/e

Rick Ramsey
Sun Microsystems Press, Palo Alto, CA

Published July, 1994 by Prentice Hall PTR (ECS Professional)

Copyright 1995, 480 pp.
Paper
ISBN 0-13-309576-2


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Summary

NIS+ (Network Information Service Plus…–) is a new network information service that is part of SunSoft's Open Network Computing Plus (ONC+…–) suite of products — which is installed on over 3.1 million nodes world wide. NIS+ is available on Solaris…– 2.x — whether Intel…–- or SPARC…–-based, and is portable to other operating systems that support ONC RPC or ONC+ transport-independent RPC (TI-RPC…–). This is THE authoritative guide to administering NIS+.

Features


compares NIS+ to DNS (Domain Naming Service…– and NIS (Network Information Service…–).
Part I focuses on the structure of NIS+ — what it has to offer and how it is put together: the NIS+ Namespace, NIS+ Tables and Information, NIS+ Security, the Name Service Switch.
Part II provides guidelines for two different approaches to NIS+: a transition from NIS to NIS+ and setting up NIS+ from scratch.
Part III presents step-by-step instructions for setting up the components of an NIS+ namespace, from the root domain to individual clients. The setup process is divided into building blocks (described individually), from which readers can choose for “building” a customized namespace. Also considers the use of NIS+ setup scripts.
Part IV describes the NIS+ commands in terms of administration categories — e.g., commands used to administer credentials, commands used to administer groups, etc. Command descriptions begin with a summary of syntax and then go into details.
includes Pre-Setup Worksheets and a list of NIS+ Scripts Error Messages.


Table of Contents
PART I. UNDERSTANDING NIS+.

    1. Understanding Network Information Services.
    2. Understanding the NIS+ Namespace.
    3. Understanding NIS+ Tables and Information.
    4. Understanding NIS+ Security.
    5. Understanding the Name Service Switch.

PART II. PLANNING FOR NIS+.
    6. Planning and Transition Guidelines.
    7. Building a Prototype NIS+ Namespace.
    8. Designing the NIS+ Namespace.
    9. Selecting NIS+ Security Measures.
    10. Using NIS Compatibility Mode.
    11. Satisfying Prerequisites to Transition.
    12. Implementing the Transition.
PART III. SETTING UP THE NIS+ SERVICE.
    13. Setup Guidelines.
    14. Setting Up an NIS+ Namespace Using the NIS+ Scripts.
    15. Setting Up the Root Domain.
    16. Setting Up NIS+ Tables.
    17. Setting Up an NIS+ Client.
    18. Setting Up NIS+ Servers.
    19. Setting Up a Non-Root Domain.
    20. Setting Up the Name Service Switch.
PART IV. ADMINISTERING THE NIS+ SERVICE.
    21. Administering NIS+ Groups.
    22. Administering NIS+ Credentials.
    23. Administering NIS+ Access Rights.
    24. Administering NIS+ Directories.
    25. Administering NIS+ Tables.
PART V. APPENDICES.
    A. Information in NIS+ Tables.
    B. Pre-Setup Worksheets.
    C. NIS+ Scripts Error Messages.
    D. NIS+ API.

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