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permalink · #1 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 08:48 AM

Hello,

I have one AIX box acting as NIS server and working with two other
boxes running as NIS clients. All of them have AIX 5.1.
Everything is Ok with users definitions and passwords replications.
But now I want to create rules for the passwords (minimum lenght,
maximum age, etc). All this is stored under /etc/security/passwd. How
can I replicate this information to the NIS clients? Is this possible
with NIS? Or is it only possible with NIS+? Or does anyone know of
other ways of doing it?

Thank you very much in advance for your help.

Cheers

permalink · #2 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 08:48 AM

NIS and NIS+ Guide
http://www16.boulder.ibm.com/pseries.../mastertoc.htm

Looking at section: Passwd Table
i would say that this information is the NIS maps. So i guess a:
chuser -R NIS -a ATTRIBUT=value
should do the job.

hth
Hajo

permalink · #3 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 08:48 AM

Thanks for your reply.

The book section that you point is under "Appendix A. Information in
NIS+ Tables". Does this mean that what I want is only available through
NIS+ and that my only option is to migrate from NIS to NIS+?

Thanks
Cheers

permalink · #4 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 08:49 AM

Carlos Oliveira wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> The book section that you point is under "Appendix A. Information in
> NIS+ Tables". Does this mean that what I want is only available through
> NIS+ and that my only option is to migrate from NIS to NIS+?

>From my understanding: Yes, The NIS user database supportes only the
user attributes like in the /etc/passwd so no other user attributes are
supported.

Otherwise NIS+ or LDAP should be use. IMHO i would go for LDAP

hth
Hajo

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