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From: nsk@castle.ed.ac.uk (N Skilling)
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Subject: Re: NIS Server/Slaver Communications help needed.
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In article <438@brchh104.bnr.ca> tcurrey@x102a.ess.harris.com (currey tom 76327) writes:
>Problem:  When I add an account to the Master, It does not push the passwd
>file across to the other slaves.  I have each machine in /etc/hosts, and

You have not set up yppasswdd ( rpc.ypasswdd ) to check the /etc/passwd
file and then do a make on a change. I have the following line in my
rc.local file on the NIS master. This forces a make in /var/yp when
/etc/passwd is altered automatically. Remember it make take a few minutes
to update the slaves depending on system load.

-- Lines from rc.local

if [ -f /usr/etc/rpc.yppasswdd -a -d /var/yp/`domainname` ] ; then
        /usr/etc/rpc.yppasswdd /etc/passwd -m passwd
fi

Neil SKilling