[Linux-disciples] NIS questions

[Stephen R Laniel]

All right: I think I have NIS properly set up on a few
clients, because I can run programs like ypcat and get
entries out of my passwd file. But this brings up a question
for me: how does NIS resolve a conflict between the local
passwd file and the NIS passwd file? If a username exists in
both files, whose password does the system consult? I'll
experiment a bit on this.

I know that NIS is properly synching passwd files, because I
created a test user only on the server, ran
'make -C /var/yp', and saw that the test user was available
from one of the client machines. It seems pretty
straightforward.

Next task: get the desktops and so forth shared. I assume
that's easy?

Thanks to Dylan for pushing me to NIS.

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