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nis_intro(7)							  nis_intro(7)

NAME
       nis_intro - Network Information Service (NIS) introductory information

DESCRIPTION
       The  Network  Information  Service  (NIS) is a distributed name service
       that allows participating hosts to share access to a common set of sys‐
       tem  and	 network files.	 NIS allows the system administrator to manage
       these shared files on a single system.

       NIS is intended for use in a secure environment only, where gateways do
       not allow outside Internet access to the NIS protocol.

   NIS Maps
       Information distributed by NIS is stored in database files called maps.
       Most of the NIS maps represent files that were traditionally stored  in
       the  /etc  directory.  These files include the following: aliases group
       hosts netgroups networks passwd protocols rpc services

       In a secure environment, you can run NIS in a secure mode, thereby cre‐
       ating  secure  and  nonsecure  versions	of the NIS maps.  See Security
       Administration for more information.

       You can also use NIS to distribute files used by Automount  or  AutoFS,
       or to distribute other user-defined files.

       Each  NIS  map contains a set of keys and associated values.  For exam‐
       ple, as keys, the hosts map contains all host names on a	 network,  and
       as  values,  the	 corresponding Internet addresses.  Each NIS map has a
       map name, used by programs to access data in the map.

   NIS Domains
       A named set of NIS maps is called a domain.  A system's	"domain	 name"
       or  "NIS domain" corresponds to the set of NIS maps that the system can
       access.	You can think of an NIS domain as a set of systems that	 share
       the same set of NIS maps.

       A  system's  domain name is set at the time the system is booted by the
       /sbin/init.d/nis script using an	 entry	in  the	 /etc/rc.config.common
       file.   System  administrators  can  use	 the  nissetup script to place
       entries in this file.  The nissetup script is described in the  Network
       Administration: Services manual.

       You  can	 determine  your system's NIS domain using the domainname com‐
       mand.  Refer to domainname(1). A domain name is required for retrieving
       data from an NIS database.

   NIS Client-Server Model
       NIS  follows the client-server model of distributed services. There are
       two types of NIS servers - master and slave.  The master server	stores
       the  master copy of the NIS maps for its domain; these are the only NIS
       maps that can be modified.  Each domain has only one master server.

       Slave servers store copies of the master server's NIS maps.  NIS	 slave
       servers	can  be	 spread	 throughout a network.	Whenever an NIS map is
       updated on the master server, the master propagates the changes to each
       slave  server in its domain.  If the master is unavailable for any rea‐
       son, the slave servers continue to make the NIS maps available  to  the
       NIS clients.

       Clients are all of the systems that can access NIS maps.	 When a client
       requires NIS information, it makes a remote procedure call (RPC) to one
       of the NIS servers to obtain the information.

   NIS Data Storage
       The data in NIS maps is stored as databases in dbm/ndbm, btree, or hash
       format.

       For example, the NIS map for the /etc/hosts file in the	domain	market
       might be stored in these dbm/ndbm files:

       /var/yp/market/hosts.byaddr.dir	       /var/yp/market/hosts.byaddr.pag
       /var/yp/market/hosts.byname.dir /var/yp/market/hosts.byname.pag

       The makedbm command takes an ASCII file such as /etc/hosts and converts
       it  into dbm/ndbm files suitable for use by NIS. However, system admin‐
       istrators use the Makefile script in the /var/yp	 directory  to	create
       NIS  map	 files and specify file format. The Makefile script then calls
       makedbm.

       Refer to the Network Administration: Services manual for details on the
       Makefile script, specifying different formats, and other NIS management
       information.

SEE ALSO
       Commands:   domainname(1),   svcsetup(8),   ypbind(8),	 yppasswdd(8),
       ypserv(8), ypxfr(8)

       Files: svc.conf(4)

       Network Administration: Services

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