NIS domain stuff

[Darryl Clarke]

On 4/19/05, Wendy Leigh Vandoolaeghe <wlv21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> HI
> at work there is a linux machine and I tried to login on it with my
> usual login details, but it did not work.
> Obviously whoever is root, will have to create a user account for me.
> Our sysadmin (of the company) doesn't know this pc, but mentioned that
> "it might not be part of the company's NIS domain??". What does this mean
> and how to fix it?
> 

NIS isn't enabled by default with Ubuntu.

You need to install the nis package, then configure your computer as a
client according to
/usr/share/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz

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