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- From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
- Subject: NIS: multiple masters/overlapping domains
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- Organization: Mount Holyoke College
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:12:57 GMT
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- I have some hairy NIS questions. I have the O'Reilley book, but couldn't
- find any information regarding this in it.
-
- Basically, here's the setup... I'm responsible for a bunch of Suns that
- belong to the computer science department at a small college. There is
- an IS department which provides general services, and CS wants to use
- the same password entries as IS, but have their own NIS maps for various
- other things.
-
- Right now I have a set of machines in a single domain with two
- masters... one serves just the password map (the IS machine), the
- other serves everything else. This seems to work ok, although there
- is no mention of such a setup anywhere in the Sun docs or the
- O'Reilley book. Is this kosher? Are there any potential pitfalls I'm
- not seeing?
-
- Even if it's kosher, the setup is less than ideal, because it doesn't
- provide for the possibility that the math department sets up a bunch
- of Unix boxes and wants to do the same thing (get the password map
- from the IS machine and have their own maps for other stuff).
-
- So what I would like to do is a have a simple two-level hierarchy of
- domains, where the IS machine is the master server for the top level
- (call it smith.edu), and CS's server becomes the master for a subdomain
- (call it csc.smith.edu). Then I would like to have the server for
- csc.smith.edu be a slave for maps in smith.edu and a master for it's
- own set of maps. This seems a much more logical approach to me. Is
- it possible?
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