Responding to NIS requests

If you are supporting “agentless” authentication or want to allow a computer to service NIS client requests in a zone, the computer must be a member of the zone_nis_servers group in the zone. Setting or unsetting the Allow this computer to respond to NIS client requests property requires the following permissions:

Select this target object To apply these permissions

The zone_nis_servers group object

For example, select:

domain/UNIX/Zones/acme/Computers/zone_nis_servers

Click the Properties tab and select Allow to apply the following properties to this object only:

  • List contents
  • Read all properties
  • Write member property

If the zone_nis_servers group does not already exist in the current zone, setting the Allow this computer to respond to NIS client requests property also requires the following permission on the ZoneName/Computers object:

  • Create group objects