                                            Name:______________

Quiz #2 -- Printing, YP, and More!

1) User Andrew "FAT" Tommy has accounts "fat@shortyear.com" and "andy@gaag.nmu.edu". He would like to be able to rlogin in from shortyear to gaag without typing in his password. He would also like the rsh command to have permissions to send commands from shortyear to gaag. Unfortunately, he does not know how to do this. What should he do on gaag to allow this? (Hint: He's not root, but can still make this happen.)

ANS --make an entry in ~/.rhosts on gaag that says "shortyear.com fat"

2a) Andy-boy has been promoted to system admin on shortyear, and now has root privliges. He now wants to be able to print from shortyear to the printer attached to gaag. He is quite clueless on how to do this. What should he do to allow printing from shortyear to the printer named 'turtle' on gaag?

ANS
a - make an /etc/printcap entry on shortyear like the one in the printing-Howto.
b - make the spool directoy listed in /etc/printcap.
c - restart the lpd daemon.
d - On gaag, add shortyear to /etc/host.lpd

2b) If you don't know the actual 'printcap' entry, tell me how you would find an example. In other words, tell me either what goes in /etc/printcap OR tell me where you would look it up.

ANS -- look in the printing HOWTO.

3) Andy's girlfriend rises up in revolt against his poor system administration. She would like to use the account information (/etc/passwd and /etc/group) from gaag on shortyear. She's heard of YP/NIS/NYS, and thinks that would help. How can she set up shortyear as a YP/NYS/NIS client of gaag's YP server.

ANS -- assuming NYS ..
a- make a /var/yp directory
b - set up the file /etc/nsswitch.conf (see gaag for example)
c - set up the file yp.conf (see gaag for example).