(E-Mail Removed) (P.T. Breuer) wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed)>...
> Sandeep <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> > i am newbie to the world of NIS. i have got a network of 4 Linux
> > machine all running on Red Hat Linux 8.0. The machine names and the IP
> > addresses are as follows:
>
> > Machine name IP Address
> > ============= ===========
> > nismaster 192.168.100.101
> > slave1 192.168.100.102
> > slave2 192.168.100.103
> > slave3 192.168.100.104
>
>
> > NIS master is configured and functioning properly, have created a
> > dummy account "nis" on the master and am able to login successfully on
> > all the machines. All teh slaves have the entry
> > ypserver 192.168.100.101
> > ypserver 127.0.0.1
>
> This is incorrect. Only the first entry is correct.
>
> > the configuration i need is that if the nismaster goes down for any
> > reason i should be able to log in the slave servers using the nis
>
> Eh? What "slave servers"? The usual config for a 4 machine network is
> master and its clients. There should be no "slave servers".
>
> Are you saying that you have set up slaves on the 3 client machines?
> If so, you want "ypserver 127.0.0.1" and nothing else.
>
> > account. i dont need the password change facility when the master
> > fails.
>
> I don't understand - having slaves has nothing to do with having a
> passwd. When you do a passwd change the change will go to the master,
> no matter if you have slaves or not. The map contains the name of the
> master so that yppasswd can go to the right source.
>
> > secondly how can i configure to change the password non-interactively
> > (from www).
>
> I don't understand what you mean. You can put any passwd you like in
> the master.
>
> > i know how to do that for local accounts using PAM/crypt,
> > is there any procedure to change password from the web
>
> What? Are you asking for a web page - some cgi - on the master that
> changes the psswd there? Sure. Write any one you like.
>
> Peter
ok, , this is the small description about by lab
Two web server running apache
A mail serevr on sendmail
Two development machines
all these machines are having redhat linux 8.0 and are having their
own password file.
these are my requirments,
1. I need to manage all the username and password at a single
palce,i.e. on a single machine, i suppose NIS does this perfectly.
2. the user should be able to login even if the nis master fails or
doesn't responds, i need this feature because the 2 web servers and
the mail servers are the production machine and i dont want that the
service should go down in any case.
please suggest me what should be done
thanks
Sandeep
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