NISSYNCD: Automatically rebuild NIS database (in Rust)

The program is designed for computer clusters which share users and groups by NIS, which could watch for /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group and /etc/gshadow changing and run make in NIS directory automatically.

This program requires you to install make before use it.

Environment variables

You can set a environment variables named YP_DIRECTORY to specify the NIS database directory. Default value is /var/yp.

Build & Release

It's recommended to build the source code to x86_64-unknown-linux-musl target, that will make the program statically linked, and you could run it everywhere. The file provided in release page is compile to this target.

systemd intergration

# /etc/systemd/system/nissyncd.service
[Unit]
Description=Rebuild NIS database automatically.

[Service]
Type=simple
# assumes that put the binary file in /usr/local/bin
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/nissyncd

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target