17.8. NIS on Solaris

The only other operating system that Webmin allows you to configure NIS on is Sun's Solaris. On Solaris, the NIS Client and Client Services page are identical to those on Linux, and work in the same way. However, the NIS Server and Server Security forms are slightly different:

Table 17.1. Module Configuration Options
Maximum number of records to displayIf the number of records in an NIS table exceeds this number, then the NIS Tables page will not display all of the records. Instead, it will show a search form for finding records based on a field and search term.
Automatically rebuild NIS maps?Normally, any time you add, update, or delete a record in a table file, the NIS Makefile is run to rebuild all tables. Because this can be slow on systems with many records or slave servers, setting this option to No will turn off the automatic rebuild. Instead, you can force a build whenever you want by clicking the button labeled Rebuild NIS tables on the NIS Tables page.

  • On the NIS Server page, whatever domain you enter will also be used for the NIS client as well. This is a limitation of Solaris—unlike Linux, where a system can be a server for one domain and a client of another.

  • On the server page, you cannot specify the paths to individual table files directly. Instead, the NIS source files directory and NIS password source files directory fields control which directories they are stored in, usually /var/yp.

  • There is no Client map restrictions table on the Server Security page, and so no way to control which tables and fields clients can request. However, you can still allow or deny certain hosts and networks entirely using the Allow clients table.

Solaris systems include client and server support for NIS+ as standard. However, because that protocol is not supported by Webmin, attempting to use this module to reconfigure a system that is already running as an NIS+ client or server will not work, and may even cause problems with its configuration.

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