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Safeguard Authentication Services 4.1.5 - Administration Guide

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Installing and configuring the Solaris NIS client components

You can find the vasyp.pkg file in the client directory for your Solaris operating system on the installation media.

To install and configure vasyp on Solaris

  1. Stop the system ypserv and ypbind daemons by running the following commands as root:
    1. For Solaris 8 and 9, run:
      # /etc/init.d/rpc stop

      To ensure that the system ypserv daemon does not start at boot time, make sure that the following directory does not exist:

      /var/yp/$domainname

      where $domainname matches the NIS domain returned by domainname.

      Note: You do not need to do this if the machine is not configured as a NIS server.

    2. For Solaris 10 (or greater):

      1. Stop ypbind

        # /usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypstop

      2. Stop vasypd

        # svcadm disable vasypd

      3. Stop ypserv

        # svcadm disable network/nis/server

      Note: When installing the Authentication Services vasypd Unix component on Solaris 10 (or greater), you must have the rpcbind service enabled on the host for this service to start. To enable it, run this command: 

      # /usr/sbin/svcadm enable -s network/rpc/bind

  2. As root, mount the installation CD, change to the solaris directory, and run the following command:
    # pkgadd -d vasyp_SunOS_<platform>-<version>.pkg all
  3. Create the /var/yp/binding/example.com directory where example.com is the Active Directory domain to which you are joined.
  4. Create the /var/yp/binding/example.com/ypservers file and add the following line or modify the existing file to only contain this line:
    localhost
  5. Set the system NIS domain name to match the Active Directory domain to which you are joined by running the following command as root:
    # domainname example.com

    where example.com is the domain to which your machine has been joined.

    Note: This only sets your NIS domain name for the current environment.

  6. Set the NIS domain name permanently by modifying /etc/defaultdomain to include only the following line:
    example.com

    where example.com is the Active Directory domain to which you are joined.

  7. Start vasyp with the following command:
    # /etc/init.d/vasypd start
  8. Start ypbind with the following command:

    1. For Solaris 8 and 9, run: 
      # /etc/init.d/rpc start
    2. For Solaris 10 (or greater), run: 
      # /usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypstart

You can now use the NIS utilities like ypwhich and ypcat to query vasyp for NIS map data.

Note: For Solaris 10 (or greater), ypbind may not bind to vasyp until some actual NIS requests occur which can take up to 30 seconds.

Note: For Solaris 10 (or greater), you must restart ypbind by entering the following command. 

# svcadm restart network/nis/client

Installing and configuring the HP-UX NIS client components

You can find the vasyp.depot file in the client directory for your HPUX operating system on the installation media.

To install and configure vasyp on HP-UX

  1. Stop the system ypserv and ypbind daemons by running the following commands as root:
    # /sbin/init.d/nis.server stop
# /sbin/init.d/nis.client stop

    To ensure that the system ypserv daemon does not start at boot time, modify /etc/rc.config.d/namesvrs and set the NIS_MASTER_SERVER and NIS_SLAVE_SERVER variables to 0.

    Note: You do not need to do this if the machine is not configured as a NIS server.

  2. As root, mount the Authentication Services installation CD and change to the hpux directory.
  3. To install the depot on an HP-UX client, enter the following command:
    # swinstall -s /cdrom/hpux-<platform>/vasyp_<platform>-<version>.depot vasyp
  4. Create the /var/yp/binding/example.com directory where example.com is the Active Directory domain to which you are joined.
  5. Create the /var/yp/binding/example.com/ypservers file, and add the following line, or modify the existing file to only contain this line:
    localhost
  6. Set the system NIS domain name to match the Active Directory domain to which you are joined by running the following command as root:
    # domainname example.com

    where example.com is the domain to which your machine has been joined.

  7. Set the NIS domain name permanently by modifying /etc/rc.config.d/namesvrs so that the NIS_DOMAIN variable is set to the Active Directory domain to which the Unix machine is joined.
  8. To ensure that the system NIS client processes starts at boot time, set the NIS_CLIENT variable in /etc/rc.config.d/namesvrs to 1.
  9. Start vasyp with the following command:
    # /sbin/init.d/vasypd start
  10. (Optional) Start ypbind with the following command:
    # /sbin/init.d/nis.client start

    You can now use the NIS utilities like ypwhich and ypcat to query vasyp for NIS map data.

Installing and configuring the AIX NIS client components

You can find the vasyp.bff file in the client directory for your AIX operating system on the installation media.

To install and configure vasyp on AIX

  1. Ensure that the system ypserv and ypbind daemons are stopped by running the following commands as root:
    # stopsrc -s ypbind 
# stopsrc -s ypserv

    Also ensure that all entries dealing with ypserv and ypbind in /etc/rc.nfs are commented out.

    Note: You do not need to do this if the machine is not configured as a NIS server.

  2. As root, mount the Authentication Services installation CD and change to the aix directory.
  3. Use installp to install the package appropriate for your version of AIX, as follows: 
    # installp -ac -d vasyp_AIX_<platform>.<version>.bff all
  4. On AIX 5.3 and higher, create a ypservers file in /var/yp/binding/<NIS_DOMAIN>/ypservers which only contains the following line:
    127.0.0.1
  5. Start vasyp with the following command:
    # /etc/rc.d/init.d/vasypd start

    Note: Do not configure the NIS client using the standard AIX configuration instructions. Normally, you configure the system domain name and enable the NIS client in /etc/rc.nfs. For vasyp to work correctly on AIX, you must disable any NIS configuration in the /etc/rc.nfs file.

    You can now use the NIS utilities like ypwhich and ypcat to query vasyp for NIS map data.

NIS map search locations

By default, the vasyp daemon only searches the Active Directory container, or organizational unit (OU) in which the Unix computer object was created. You can override this search location by configuring the search-base option in vas.conf. This allows you to have different sets of NIS maps for different groups of Unix hosts.

For more information on the search-base option, refer to the vasypd section of the vas.conf man page.

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