puppet-nis

Puppet module for managing NIS clients and servers.

Table of Contents

1. Overview - What is the NIS module?
2. Usage

Overview

This module is a simple collection of configurations to set up a nis master/slave or client.

Usage

Parameters:

• ypdomain: the NIS domain name
• ypserv: the NIS server, can be a single value or an array
• ypmaster: the NIS master, for server configurations
• client: enable the client configuration, default is true
• server: enable the server configuration, default is false
• master: enable the a master server if true or a slave one if false
• groups: enable group login via NIS. Default is none.
• securenets: securenets file to be used
• hostallow: list of hosts to allow for portmap/rpcbind

Defining a nis client

class {'nis':
    ypdomain => 'mydomain',
    ypserv   => ['nis1.example.com','nis2.example.com'],
    groups   => ['users'],
}

Defining a nis slave

class {'nis':
    ypdomain   => 'mydomain',
    ypserv     => 'nis.example.com',
    ypmaster   => 'nismaster.example.com',
    master     => true,
    securenets => 'puppet:///modules/mymodule/securenets',
    hostallow  => ['10.0.0.1','192.168.0.*'],
    groups     => ['users'],
}

Contributors

• https://github.com/desalvo/puppet-nis/graphs/contributors

Release Notes

0.3.1

• Make ypmaster optional

0.3.0

• Add puppet 4 support
• Fix ypserv directive in templates

0.2.0

• Add multiple nis servers support

0.1.2

• Fix the nis auth enable procedure

0.1.1

• Using custom augeas lenses to edit /var/yp/nicknames

0.1.0

• Initial version