NIS Selective Users in passwd

I am running an NIS server with 3 clients. I would like only selected
users to be shared from the master servers passwd file to the clients.
Is there a way to limit that?

Thank You,
Jason Williard



Jason Williard

On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:40:00 -0800, Jason Williard wrote:

> I am running an NIS server with 3 clients. I would like only selected
> users to be shared from the master servers passwd file to the clients.
> Is there a way to limit that?

Look for MINUID in: /var/yp/Makefile - edit that file to your likeing and
(re)run the make.

HTH.

--
-Menno.

On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 02:54:52 -0500, Menno Duursma <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:40:00 -0800, Jason Williard wrote:
>
>> I am running an NIS server with 3 clients. I would like only selected
>> users to be shared from the master servers passwd file to the clients.
>> Is there a way to limit that?
>
> Look for MINUID in: /var/yp/Makefile - edit that file to your likeing and
> (re)run the make.

In the Makefile I modified where it reads the system password file to
filter only selected users from it. You could use egrep or awk to do it.