December 2005
Beginner
480 pages
13h 27m
English
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Hack #77. Clean Up NIS After Users Depart
Don't let your NIS maps go stale! The NIS password map obviously needs maintenance, but don't forget to remove departed users from the groups they belonged to as well.
Many sites use NIS, in part because it's been there for many years and is an extremely reliable, acceptably fast, and relatively low-overhead way to run a centralized authentication directory. Over the years, tons of systems software has been written to take advantage of information supplied by NIS servers for the purposes of providing information or security to the client systems.
Though there are tools available to take care of most user-management tasks when the users reside on the local system, many of these tools don't have full support for NIS, and NIS-specific versions of these tools have yet to appear. As a result, certain portions of your NIS directory can become stale.
The NIS group map is a perfect example of this occurrence. The standard userdel command doesn't support NIS, and the groupmod command doesn't support removing a user from a group, let alone an NIS group. Most of the NIS-specific commands are either for searching the maps (e.g., ypmatch and ypcat), getting information about your client system (e.g., ypwhich and ypdomainname), or getting information about the NIS server (e.g., yppoll). No tools are available for grooming the NIS maps without opening an editor and removing entries by hand.
Therefore, if you haven't been vigilant about maintaining the maps ...
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