How To Configure User Accounts Without NIS

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The company where I work is mostly a Windows shop, but I run a few CentOS
servers and desktops. I have configured my systems as follows with Kickstart:

authconfig –enablemd5 –passalgo=sha512 –enablenis –nisdomain=XXX \
–nisserver=nis1.XXX.com,nis2.XXX.com –useshadow –enablekrb5 \
–krb5realm=XXX.COM –krb5kdc=ldap.XXX.com –krb5adminserver=ldap.XXX.com

The /etc/nsswitch.conf file looks like this:

passwd: files nis
shadow: files nis
group: files nis

The NIS services are provided by the Windows Domain controllers using Windows Unix Services (or something similarly named). This allows anyone that

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