NAME

netid — NIS network credential file

DESCRIPTION

Files in netid format are rare. One lives in the NIS map netid.byname. The format is rather simple. Each row consists of two items, a key and a value. When created by mknetid(8) there are three kind of records.

The first type is information about which gids a uid has:

unix.<uid>@<yp-domain> <uid>:<gid>,<gid>

The second type has informations about hosts:

unix.<hostname>@<yp-domain> 0:<hostname>

The third type is records from a netid file other than the two types above.

FILES

/etc/netid

A file for lines not generated automatically by mknetid(8).

EXAMPLES

A configuration file might appear as follows:

unix.10714@kaka 10714:400,10 
unix.jodie@kaka 0:jodie

SEE ALSO

mknetid(8), nis(8)

AUTHORS

Mats O Jansson <moj@stacken.kth.se>