Before using NIS, it is necessary to enable NIS for the server.
To enable NIS, navigate to Network Configuration > NIS/LDAP Configuration and click Enable NIS.
The current NIS configuration settings appear as shown in the following example:
This page contains the following options:
- Modify - this option enables the Administrator to change the NIS configuration settings
- Add - this option enables the Administrator to add a new NIS server
- Delete - this option enables the Administrator to remove an existing NIS server
- Switch to using LDAP - this option enables LDAP mode and displays the LDAP configuration settings
- Disable NIS and LDAP - this option disables NIS and LDAP
CLI commands
The following commands are available:
- nis-ldap-mode - this command selects whether the server uses LDAP or NIS servers to satisfy NIS queries
- nis-state - this command enables and disables the NIS client
- nis-show - this command displays the current NIS client settings
- nis-set - this command displays and sets the NIS client parameters
- nis-server - this command displays and sets the servers which are available for the NIS client to contact