Having problems with NIS

[Robert Hopcroft <hopcroft@uswest.net>]

Daniel Glenn asked:

> Here at White Horse we had some local college students setup our LINUX

> network. They've gone home for the summer, so we're doing things on
our
> own. I've spent some time trying to find out how to addusers that can
be
> accessed across the whole network, but have been unable to do so.

> We are running RedHat 6.0. I know everything is working, I can log
into
> my account from anywhere on the network. But I cannot figure out how
to
> add a new user. Where is the file that I modify for this? What do I
put
> in? I found the passwd file that linuxconf adds to, but I can't find
the
> file that NIS wants.

I have not seen a response to this request. Does anyone know? Daniel, if
there is no response here, you might try asking on linux-list@ssc.com. I
watch that list and if I see a response which is not also sent to you, I
will forward it to you.

Bob