The main account machine is hail.vislab.usyd.edu.au. Currently this acts as both the NIS server and the [http://www.samba.org/ Samba] and NFS file-server. The vislab nis domain is vislab2.usyd.edu.au. Vislab.usyd.edu.au is the previous Irix one served by redgate; this is gradually being phased out.

Account creation

• Create the user on 'hail' using adduser.

• Add the user to /etc/auto.home

• cd to /var/yp and run make

• If the user is to have mail forwarded to another address add them to /etc/postfix/virtual and run postmap /etc/postfix/virtual

• Restart the mail-servers, including the auth-daemon:

/etc/init.d/saslauthd restart
/etc/init.d/courier-authdaemon restart
/etc/init.d/courier-imap restart
/etc/init.d/courier-imap-ssl restart
/etc/init.d/postfix restart

• To give Samba access run smbpasswd <user>

Detailed NIS admin info available [http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO/ here].

You will want point to the NewUserNotes page.

Other accounts

You will almost always want to create a wiki account and a blog account, and usually a subversion project. See the following:

• ["BlogNotes"]

• ["WikiNotes"]

• ["Subversion"]