Networking Guide
Chapter 7, Configuring the Network Information Service (NIS)

Initializing NIS

Initializing NIS

You can initialize your system as an NIS:

You must be in single-user mode during initialization.


CAUTION: When initializing NIS servers within an NIS domain, you must initialize and reboot the designated master server for the NIS domain before initializing any other NIS servers in the NIS domain. Failure to follow this requirement could result in incorrect maps on various servers.