Administering NIS users and groups
Once you have initialized an NIS domain,
most user account administration within the domain can be
performed using the Account Manager.
You can:
You must be in multiuser mode (init state 2) with NIS daemons running before creating or modifying user accounts.
By default, only non-administrative accounts will become distributed NIS accounts when NIS is initialized by either ypinit or mkdev nis.
ypinit will ask the user whether administrative accounts should be distributed. If the user chooses to do so, the ADMACCTS variable in /etc/yp/Makefile and /etc/yp/ypmake will be set to -a.
See also: