what are the daemons running In NIS? how to do u create NIS
users and update Maps?

Answer Posted / kishore devkate

Below daemons will run the NIS
1) ypservd
2) ypxfrd
3) yppasswd
4) ypbind

Create a user by useradd command and copy the line
from /etc/passwd file to NIS data base file, Exple:-some
peoples use /var/yp/domain/passwd
and run the command from /var/yp/domain directory
i.e : #cd /var/yp/domain
#/usr/ccs/bin/make passwd

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