nis.md

Installs and configures the Network Information service (NIS).

↪ attributes/nis.rb
↪ recipes/nis.rb
↪ templates/default/etc_yp.conf.erb
↪ tests/roles/sys_nis_test.rb

Attributes

All attributes in node.sys.nis:

• servers (required) contains the list of NIS servers.
• domain (optional) defines the NIS domain (the DNS domain is used by default).
• nscd.enable (default false) starts the Name Server Cache Daemon (NSCD).

Example

"sys" => {
  "nis" => {
    "servers" => [ 
      "lxnis01.devops.test", 
      "lxnis02.devops.test" 
    ]
  },
  "nscd" => {
    "enable" => true
  }
}