Summary of switching NIS+ and files

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Thanks go to : Ray Delaney Roy Culley Gary Merinstein Steven Xiao Bruce
R. Zimmer Chad Price David Horowitz Parks Fields

Here was what I've done and it worked perfectly.

Switching from NIS+ to files client.

1. Boot machine into single user mode (to avoid any NIS+ activity)
2. Move /var/nis directory to s.g else: mv /var/nis
/var/nis.backup
3. Make backup of nsswitch.conf and copy nsswitch.files onto new
nsswitch.conf
                                cp /etc/nsswitch.conf
/etc/nsswitch.conf.backup
                                cp /etc/nsswitch.files /etc/nsswitch.conf
                                        
                4. Modify /etc/hosts /etc/resolv.conf and
/etc/defaultdomain if the you're changing machine's IP address, domain and
DNS configuration.
4. Reboot the machine. Now it is no longer a NIS+ client, just a
local files configuration.

Switching back to NIS+
Reverse the process above.

s.q.

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