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NAME [Toc] [Back]
nis+, NIS+, nis - a new version of the network information name
service
DESCRIPTION [Toc] [Back]
NIS+ is a new version of the network information name service. This
version differs in several significant ways from version 2, which is
referred to as NIS or YP in earlier releases. Specific areas of
enhancement include the ability to scale to larger networks, security,
and the administration of the service.
The man pages for NIS+ are broken up into three basic categories.
Those in section 1 are the user commands that are most often executed
from a shell script or directly from the command line. Section 1M man
pages describe utility commands that can be used by the network
administrator to administer the service itself. The NIS+ programming
API is described by man pages in section 3N.
All commands and functions that use NIS version 2 are prefixed by the
letters yp as in ypmatch(1), ypcat(1), yp_match(3C), and yp_first(3C).
Commands and functions that use the new replacement software NIS+ are
prefixed by the letters nis as in nismatch(1), nischown(1),
nis_list(3N), and nis_add_entry(3N). A complete list of NIS+ commands
is in the LIST OF COMMANDS section.
This man page introduces the NIS+ terminology. It also describes the
NIS+ namespace, authentication, and authorization policies.
NIS+ NAMESPACE
The naming model of NIS+ is based upon a tree structure. Each node in
the tree corresponds to an NIS+ object. There are six types of NIS+
objects: directory, table, group, link, entry, and private.
NIS+ Directory Object
Each NIS+ namespace will have at least one NIS+ directory object. An
NIS+ directory is like a UNIX file system directory which contains
other NIS+ objects including NIS+ directories. The NIS+ directory
that forms the root of the NIS+ namespace is called the root
directory. There are two special NIS+ directories: org_dir and
groups_dir. The org_dir directory consists of all the system-wide
administration tables, such as passwd, hosts, and mail_aliases. The
groups_dir directory consists of NIS+ group objects which are used for
access control. The collection of org_dir, groups_dir and their
parent directory is referred to as an NIS+ domain. NIS+ directories
can be arranged in a tree-like structure so that the NIS+ namespace
can match the organizational or administrative hierarchy.
NIS+ Table Object
NIS+ tables (not files), contained within NIS+ directories, store the
actual information about some particular type. For example, the hosts
system table stores information about the IP address of the hosts in
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that domain. NIS+ tables are multicolumn and the tables can be
searched through any of the searchable columns. Each table object
defines the schema for its table. The NIS+ tables consist of NIS+
entry objects. For each entry in the NIS+ table, there is an NIS+
entry object. NIS+ entry objects conform to the schema defined by the
NIS+ table object.
NIS+ Group Object
NIS+ group objects are used for access control at group granularity.
NIS+ group objects, contained within the groups_dir directory of a
domain, contain a list of all the NIS+ principals within a certain
NIS+ group. An NIS+ principal is a user or a machine making NIS+
requests.
NIS+ Link Object
NIS+ link objects are like UNIX symbolic file-system links-they are
typically used for shortcuts in the NIS+ namespace.
Refer to nis_objects(3N) for more information about the NIS+ objects.
NIS+ NAMES
The NIS+ service defines two forms of names, simple names and indexed
names. Simple names are used by the service to identify NIS+ objects
contained within the NIS+ namespace. Indexed names are used to
identify NIS+ entries contained within NIS+ tables. Furthermore,
entries within NIS+ tables are returned to the caller as NIS+ objects
of type entry. NIS+ objects are implemented as a union structure
which is described in the file <rpcsvc/nis_object.h>. The differences
between the various types and the meanings of the components of these
objects are described in nis_objects(3N).
Simple Names [Toc] [Back]
Simple names consist of a series of labels that are separated by the
`.'(dot) character. Each label is composed of printable characters
from the ISO Latin 1 set. Each label can be of any nonzero length,
provided that the fully qualified name is fewer than NIS_MAXNAMELEN
octets including the separating dots. (See <rpcsvc/nis.h> for the
actual value of NIS_MAXNAMELEN in the current release.) Labels that
contain special characters (see Grammar) must be quoted.
The NIS+ namespace is organized as a singly rooted tree. Simple names
identify nodes within this tree. These names are constructed such
that the leftmost label in a name identifies the leaf node and all of
the labels to the right of the leaf identify that object's parent
node. The parent node is referred to as the leaf's directory. This is
a naming directory and should not be confused with a file system
directory.
For example, the name example.simple.name. is a simple name with three
labels, where example is the leaf node in this name, the directory of
this leaf is simple.name. which by itself is a simple name. The leaf
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of which is simple and its directory is simply name.
The function nis_leaf_of(3N) returns the first label of a simple name.
The function nis_domain_of(3N) returns the name of the directory that
contains the leaf. Iterative use of these two functions can break a
simple name into each of its label components.
The name `.' (dot) is reserved to name the global root of the
namespace. For systems that are connected to the Internet, this
global root will be served by a Domain Name Service. When an NIS+
server is serving a root directory whose name is not `.'(dot), this
directory is referred to as a local root.
NIS+ names are said to be fully qualified when the name includes all
of the labels identifying all of the directories, up to the global
root. Names without the trailing dot are called partially qualified.
Indexed Names [Toc] [Back]
Indexed names are compound names that are composed of a search
criterion and a simple name. The search criterion component is used
to select entries from a table; the simple name component is used to
identify the NIS+ table that is to be searched. The search criterion
is a series of column names and their desired values enclosed in
bracket `[]' characters. These criteria take the following form:
[column_name=value, column_name=value, ... ]
A search criterion is combined with a simple name to form an indexed
name by concatenating the two parts, separated by a `,'(comma)
character as follows.
[ search-criterion ],table.directory.
When multiple column name/value pairs are present in the search
criterion, only those entries in the table that have the appropriate
value in all columns specified are returned. When no column name/value
pairs are specified in the search criterion, [], all entries in the
table are returned.
Grammar [Toc] [Back]
The following text represents a context-free grammar that defines the
set of legal NIS+ names. The terminals in this grammar are the
characters `.' (dot), `[' (open bracket), `]' (close bracket), `,'
(comma), `=' (equals) and whitespace. Angle brackets (`<' and `>'),
which delineate non-terminals, are not part of the grammar. The
character `|' (vertical bar) is used to separate alternate productions
and should be read as ``this production OR this production''.
name ::= . | <simple name> | <indexed name>
simple name ::= <string>. | <string>.<simple name>
indexed name ::= <search criterion>,<simple name>
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search criterion ::= [ <attribute list> ]
attribute list ::= <attribute> | <attribute>,<attribute list>
attribute ::= <string> = <string>
string ::= ISO Latin 1 character set except the
character '/' (slash). The initial character
may not be a terminal character or the
characters '@' (at), '+' (plus), or (`-')
hyphen.
Terminals that appear in strings must be quoted with `"' (double
quote). The `"' character may be quoted by quoting it with itself
`""'.
Name Expansion [Toc] [Back]
The NIS+ service only accepts fully qualified names. However, since
such names may be unwieldy, the NIS+ commands in section 1 employ a
set of standard expansion rules that will attempt to fully qualify a
partially qualified name. This expansion is actually done by the NIS+
library function nis_getnames(3N) which generates a list of names
using the default NIS+ directory search path or the NIS_PATH
environment variable. The default NIS+ directory search path includes
all the names in its path. nis_getnames() is invoked by the functions
nis_lookup(3N) and nis_list(3N) when the EXPAND_NAME flag is used.
The NIS_PATH environment variable contains an ordered list of simple
names. The names are separated by the `:' (colon) character. If any
name in the list contains colons, the colon should be quoted as
described in the Grammar section. When the list is exhausted, the
resolution function returns the error NIS_NOTFOUND. This may mask the
fact that the name existed but a server for it was unreachable. If
the name presented to the list or lookup interface is fully qualified,
the EXPAND_NAME flag is ignored.
In the list of names from the NIS_PATH environment variable, the '$'
(dollar sign) character is treated specially. Simple names that end
with the label '$' have this character replaced by the default
directory (see nis_local_directory(3N)). Using "$" as a name in this
list results in this name being replaced by the list of directories
between the default directory and the global root that contain at
least two labels.
Below is an example of this expansion. Given the default directory of
some.long.domain.name., and the NIS_PATH variable set to
fred.bar.:org_dir.$:$. This path is initially broken up into the
list:
1 fred.bar.
2 org_dir.$
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3 $
The dollar sign in the second component is replaced by the default
directory. The dollar sign in the third component is replaced with
the names of the directories between the default directory and the
global root that have at least two labels in them. The effective path
value becomes:
1 fred.bar.
2a org_dir.some.long.domain.name.
3a some.long.domain.name.
3b long.domain.name.
3c domain.name.
Each of these simple names is appended to the partially qualified name
that was passed to the nis_lookup(3N) or nis_list(3N) interface. Each
is tried in turn until NIS_SUCCESS is returned or the list is
exhausted.
If the NIS_PATH variable is not set, the path ``$'' is used.
The library function nis_getnames(3N) can be called from user programs
to generate the list of names that would be attempted. The program
nisdefaults(1) with the -s option can also be used to show the fully
expanded path.
Concatenation Path [Toc] [Back]
Normally all the entries for a certain type of information are stored
within the table itself. However, there are times when it is
desirable for the table to point to other tables where entries can be
found. For example, you may want to store all the IP addresses in the
host table for their own domain, and yet want to be able to resolve
hosts in some other domain without explicitly specifying the new
domain name. NIS+ provides a mechanism for concatenating different
but related tables with an "NIS+ Concatenation Path". With a
concatenation path, you can create a sort of flat namespace from a
hierarchical structure. You can also create a table with no entries
and just point the hosts or any other table to its parent domain.
Note that with such a setup, you are moving the administrative burden
of managing the tables to the parent domain. The concatenation path
will slow down the request response time because more tables and more
servers are searched. It will also decrease the availability if all
the servers are incapacitated for a particular directory in the table
path.
The NIS+ Concatenation Path is also referred to as the "table path".
This path is set up at table creation time through nistbladm(1). You
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can specify more than one table to be concatenated and they will be
searched in the given order. Note that the NIS+ client libraries, by
default, will not follow the concatenation path set in site-specific
tables. Refer to nis_list(3N) for more details.
Namespaces [Toc] [Back]
The NIS+ service defines two additional disjoint namespaces for its
own use. These namespaces are the NIS+ Principal namespace, and the
NIS+ Group namespace. The names associated with the group and
principal namespaces are syntactically identical to simple names.
However, the information they represent cannot be obtained by directly
presenting these names to the NIS+ interfaces. Instead, special
interfaces are defined to map these names into NIS+ names so that they
may then be resolved.
Principal Names [Toc] [Back]
NIS+ principal names are used to uniquely identify users and machines
that are making NIS+ requests. These names have the form:
principal.domain
Here domain is the fully qualified name of an NIS+ directory where the
named principal's credentials can be found. See Directories and
Domains for more information on domains. Note that in this name,
principal, is not a leaf in the NIS+ namespace.
Credentials are used to map the identity of a host or user from one
context such as a process UID into the NIS+ context. They are stored
as records in an NIS+ table named cred, which always appears in the
org_dir subdirectory of the directory named in the principal name.
This mapping can be expressed as a replacement function:
principal.domain ->[cname=principal.domain ],cred.org_dir.domain
This latter name is an NIS+ name that can be presented to the
nis_list(3N) interface for resolution. NIS+ principal names are
administered using the nisaddcred(1M) command.
The cred table contains five columns named cname, auth_name,
auth_type, public_data, and private_data. There is one record in this
table for each identity mapping for an NIS+ principal. The current
service supports two such mappings:
LOCAL This mapping is used to map from the UID of a given process
to the NIS+ principal name associated with that UID. If no
mapping exists, the name nobody is returned. When the
effective UID of the process is 0 (for example, the superuser),
the NIS+ name associated with the host is returned.
Note that UIDs are sensitive to the context of the machine on
which the process is executing.
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DES This mapping is used to map to and from a Secure RPC
``netname'' into an NIS+ principal name. See secure_rpc(3N)
for more information on netnames. Note that since netnames
contain the notion of a domain, they span NIS+ directories.
The NIS+ client library function nis_local_principal(3N) uses the
cred.org_dir table to map the UNIX notion of an identity, a process'
UID, into an NIS+ principal name. Shell programs can use the program
nisdefaults(1) with the -p switch to return this information.
Mapping from UIDs to an NIS+ principal name is accomplished by
constructing a query of the form:
[auth_type=LOCAL, auth_name=uid],cred.org_dir.default-domain.
This query will return a record containing the NIS+ principal name
associated with this UID in the machine's default domain.
The NIS+ service uses the DES mapping to map the names associated with
Secure RPC requests into NIS+ principal names. RPC requests that use
Secure RPC include the netname of the client making the request in the
RPC header. This netname has the form:
unix.UID@domain
The service constructs a query using this name of the form:
[auth_type=DES, auth_name=netname],cred.org_dir.domain.
where the domain part is extracted from the netname rather than using
the default domain. This query is used to look up the mapping of this
netname into an NIS+ principal name in the domain where it was
created.
This mechanism of mapping UID and netnames into an NIS+ principal name
guarantees that a client of the NIS+ service has only one principal
name. This principal name is used as the basis for authorization which
is described below. All objects in the NIS+ namespace and all entries
in NIS+ tables must have an owner specified for them. This owner field
always contains an NIS+ principal name.
Group Names [Toc] [Back]
Like NIS+ principal names, NIS+ group names take the form:
group_name.domain
All objects in the NIS+ namespace and all entries in NIS+ tables may
optionally have a group owner specified for them. This group owner
field, when filled in, always contains the fully qualified NIS+ group
name.
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The NIS+ client library defines several interfaces ( nis_groups(3N))
for dealing with NIS+ groups. These interfaces internally map NIS+
group names into an NIS+ simple name which identifies the NIS+ group
object associated with that group name. This mapping can be shown as
follows:
group.domain -> group.groups_dir.domain
This mapping eliminates collisions between NIS+ group names and NIS+
directory names. For example, without this mapping, a directory with
the name engineering.foo.com., would make it impossible to have a
group named engineering.foo.com.. This is due to the restriction that
within the NIS+ namespace, a name unambiguously identifies a single
object. With this mapping, the NIS+ group name engineering.foo.com.
maps to the NIS+ object name engineering.groups_dir.foo.com.
The contents of a group object is a list of NIS+ principal names and
the names of other NIS+ groups. See nis_groups(3N) for a more complete
description of their use.
NIS+ SECURITY
NIS+ defines a security model to control access to information managed
by the service. The service defines access rights that are selectively
granted to individual clients or groups of clients. Principal names
and group names are used to define clients and groups of clients that
may be granted or denied access to NIS+ information. These principals
and groups are associated with NIS+ domains as defined below.
The security model also uses the notion of a class of principals
called nobody, which contains all clients, whether or not they have
authenticated themselves to the service. The class world includes any
client who has been authenticated.
Directories and Domains [Toc] [Back]
Some directories within the NIS+ namespace are referred to as NIS+
Domains. Domains are those NIS+ directories that contain the
subdirectories groups_dir and org_dir. Further, the subdirectory
org_dir should contain the table named cred. NIS+ Group names and
NIS+ Principal names always include the NIS+ domain name after their
first label.
Authentication [Toc] [Back]
The NIS+ name service uses Secure RPC for the integrity of the NIS+
service. This requires that users of the service and their machines
must have a Secure RPC key pair associated with them. This key is
initially generated with either the nisaddcred(1M) or nisclient(1M)
commands and modified with the chkey(1) or nispasswd(1) commands.
The use of Secure RPC allows private information to be stored in the
name service that will not be available to untrusted machines or users
on the network.
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In addition to the Secure RPC key, users need a mapping of their UID
into an NIS+ principal name. This mapping is created by the system
administrator using the nisclient(1M) or nisaddcred(1M) command.
Users that will be using machines in several NIS+ domains must insure
that they have a local credential entry in each of those domains.
This credential should be created with the NIS+ principal name of the
user in their ``home'' domain. For the purposes of NIS+ and Secure
RPC, the home domain is defined to be the one where your Secure RPC
key pair is located.
Authorization [Toc] [Back]
The NIS+ service defines four access rights that can be granted or
denied to clients of the service. These rights are read, modify,
create, and destroy. These rights are specified in the object
structure at creation time and may be modified later with the
nischmod(1) command. In general, the rights granted for an object
apply only to that object. However, for purposes of authorization,
rights granted to clients reading directory and table objects are
granted to those clients for all of the objects ``contained'' by the
parent object. This notion of containment is abstract. The objects
do not actually contain other objects within them. Note that group
objects do contain the list of principals within their definition.
Access rights are interpreted as follows:
read This right grants read access to an object. For directory
and table objects, having read access on the parent object
conveys read access to all of the objects that are direct
children of a directory, or entries within a table.
modify This right grants modification access to an existing
object. Read access is not required for modification.
However, in many applications, one will need to read an
object before modifying it. Such modify operations will
fail unless read access is also granted.
create This right gives a client permission to create new objects
where one had not previously existed. It is only used in
conjunction with directory and table objects. Having
create access for a table allows a client to add
additional entries to the table. Having create access for
a directory allows a client to add new objects to an NIS+
directory.
destroy This right gives a client permission to destroy or remove
an existing object or entry. When a client attempts to
destroy an entry or object by removing it, the service
first checks to see if the table or directory containing
that object grants the client destroy access. If it does,
the operation proceeds. If the containing object does not
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grant this right then the object itself is checked to see
if it grants this right to the client. If the object
grants the right, then the operation proceeds; otherwise
the request is rejected.
Each of these rights may be granted to any one of four different
categories.
owner A right may be granted to the owner of an object. The
owner is the NIS+ principal identified in the owner field.
The owner can be changed with the nischown(1) command.
Note that if the owner does not have modification access
rights to the object, the owner cannot change any access
rights to the object, unless the owner has modification
access rights to its parent object.
group owner A right may be granted to the group owner of an object.
This grants the right to any principal that is identified
as a member of the group associated with the object. The
group owner may be changed with the nischgrp(1) command.
The object owner need not be a member of this group.
world A right may be granted to everyone in the world. This
grants the right to all clients who have authenticated
themselves with the service.
nobody A right may be granted to the nobody principal. This has
the effect of granting the right to any client that makes
a request of the service, regardless of whether they are
authenticated or not.
Note that for bootstrapping reasons, directory objects that are NIS+
domains, the org_dir subdirectory and the cred table within that
subdirectory must have read access to the nobody principal. This
makes navigation of the namespace possible when a client is in the
process of locating its credentials. Granting this access does not
allow the contents of other tables within org_dir to be read (such as
the entries in the password table) unless the table itself gives
"read" access rights to the nobody principal.
Directory Authorization [Toc] [Back]
Additional capabilities are provided for granting access rights to
clients for directories. These rights are contained within the object
access rights (OAR) structure of the directory. This structure allows
the NIS+ service to grant rights that are not granted by the directory
object to be granted for objects contained by the directory of a
specific type.
An example of this capability is a directory object which does not
grant create access to all clients, but does grant create access in
the OAR structure for group type objects to clients who are members of
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the NIS+ group associated with the directory. In this example the
only objects that could be created as children of the directory would
have to be of the type group.
Another example is a directory object that grants create access only
to the owner of the directory, and then additionally grants create
access through the OAR structure for objects of type table, link,
group, and private to any member of the directory's group. This has
the effect of giving nearly complete create access to the group with
the exception of creating subdirectories. This restricts the creation
of new NIS+ domains because creating a domain requires creating both a
groups_dir and org_dir subdirectory.
Note that there is currently no command line interface to set or
change the OAR of the directory object.
Table Authorization [Toc] [Back]
As with directories, additional capabilities are provided for granting
access to entries within tables. Rights granted to a client by the
access rights field in a table object apply to the table object and
all of the entry objects ``contained'' by that table. If an access
right is not granted by the table object, it may be granted by an
entry within the table. This holds for all rights except create.
For example, a table may not grant read access to a client performing
a nis_list(3N) operation on the table. However, the access rights
field of entries within that table may grant read access to the
client. Note that access rights in an entry are granted to the owner
and group owner of the entry and not the owner or group of the table.
When the list operation is performed, all entries that the client has
read access to are returned. Those entries that do not grant read
access are not returned. If none of the entries that match the search
criterion grant read access to the client making the request, no
entries are returned and the result status contains the NIS_NOTFOUND
error code.
Access rights that are granted by the rights field in an entry are
granted for the entire entry. However, in the table object an
additional set of access rights is maintained for each column in the
table. These rights apply to the equivalent column in the entry. The
rights are used to grant access when neither the table nor the entry
itself grant access. The access rights in a column specification
apply to the owner and group owner of the entry rather than the owner
and group owner of the table object.
When a read operation is performed, if read access is not granted by
the table and is not granted by the entry but is granted by the access
rights in a column, that entry is returned with the correct values in
all columns that are readable and the string *NP* (No Permission) in
columns where read access is not granted.
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As an example, consider a client that has performed a list operation
on a table that does not grant read access to that client. Each entry
object that satisfied the search criterion specified by the client is
examined to see if it grants read access to the client. If it does,
it is included in the returned result. If it does not, then each
column is checked to see if it grants read access to the client. If
any columns grant read access to the client, data in those columns is
returned. Columns that do not grant read access have their contents
replaced by the string *NP*. If none of the columns grant read
access, then the entry is not returned.
LIST OF COMMANDS [Toc] [Back]
The following lists all commands and programming functions related to
NIS+:
NIS+ User Commands
nisaddent(1) add /etc files and NIS maps into their
corresponding NIS+ tables
niscat(1) display NIS+ tables and objects
nischgrp(1) change the group owner of a NIS+ object
nischmod(1) change access rights on a NIS+ object
nischown(1) change the owner of a NIS+ object
nischttl(1) change the time to live value of a NIS+
object
nisdefaults(1) display NIS+ default values
niserror(1) display NIS+ error messages
nisgrep(1) utilities for searching NIS+ tables
nisgrpadm(1) NIS+ group administration command
nisln(1) symbolically link NIS+ objects
nisls(1) list the contents of a NIS+ directory
nismatch(1) utilities for searching NIS+ tables
nismkdir(1) create NIS+ directories
nispasswd(1) change NIS+ password information
nisrm(1) remove NIS+ objects from the namespace
nisrmdir(1) remove NIS+ directories
nisshowcache(1M) NIS+ utility to print out the contents
of the shared cache file
nistbladm(1) NIS+ table administration command
nistest(1) return the state of the NIS+ namespace
using a conditional expression
NIS+ Administrative Commands
nis_cachemgr(1M) NIS+ utility to cache location
information about NIS+ servers
nisaddcred(1M) create NIS+ credentials
nisaddent(1M) create NIS+ tables from corresponding
/etc files or NIS maps
nisclient(1M) initialize NIS+ credentials for NIS+
principals
nisd(1M) NIS+ service daemon
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nisd_resolv(1M) NIS+ service daemon
nisinit(1M) NIS+ client and server initialization
utility
nislog(1M) display the contents of the NIS+
transaction log
nisping(1M) send ping to NIS+ servers
nispopulate(1M) populate the NIS+ tables in a NIS+
domain
nisserver(1M) set up NIS+ servers
nissetup(1M) initialize a NIS+ domain
nisshowcache(1M) NIS+ utility to print out the contents
of the shared cache file
nisstat(1M) report NIS+ server statistics
nisupdkeys(1M) update the public keys in a NIS+
directory object
rpc.nisd(1M) NIS+ service daemon
rpc.nisd_resolv(1M) NIS+ service daemon
NIS+ Programming API
_nis_map_group(3N) NIS+ group manipulation functions
db_add_entry(3N) NIS+ Database access functions
db_checkpoint(3N) NIS+ Database access functions
db_create_table(3N) NIS+ Database access functions
db_destroy_table(3N) NIS+ Database access functions
db_first_entry(3N) NIS+ Database access functions
db_free_result(3N) NIS+ Database access functions
db_initialize(3N) NIS+ Database access functions
db_list_entries(3N) NIS+ Database access functions
db_next_entry(3N) NIS+ Database access functions
db_remove_entry(3N) NIS+ Database access functions
db_reset_next_entry(3N) NIS+ Database access functions
db_standby(3N) NIS+ Database access functions
db_table_exists(3N) NIS+ Database access functions
db_unload_table(3N) NIS+ Database access functions
nis_add(3N) NIS+ namespace functions
nis_add_entry(3N) NIS+ table functions
nis_addmember(3N) NIS+ group manipulation functions
nis_checkpoint(3N) misc NIS+ log administration functions
nis_clone_object(3N) NIS+ subroutines
nis_creategroup(3N) NIS+ group manipulation functions
nis_db(3N) NIS+ Database access functions
nis_destroy_object(3N) NIS+ subroutines
nis_destroygroup(3N) NIS+ group manipulation functions
nis_dir_cmp(3N) NIS+ subroutines
nis_domain_of(3N) NIS+ subroutines
nis_error(3N) display NIS+ error messages
nis_first_entry(3N) NIS+ table functions
nis_freenames(3N) NIS+ subroutines
nis_freeresult(3N) NIS+ namespace functions
nis_freeservlist(3N) miscellaneous NIS+ functions
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nis_freetags(3N) miscellaneous NIS+ functions
nis_getnames(3N) NIS+ subroutines
nis_getservlist(3N) miscellaneous NIS+ functions
nis_groups(3N) NIS+ group manipulation functions
nis_ismember(3N) NIS+ group manipulation functions
nis_leaf_of(3N) NIS+ subroutines
nis_lerror(3N) display some NIS+ error messages
nis_list(3N) NIS+ table functions
nis_local_directory(3N) NIS+ local names
nis_local_group(3N) NIS+ local names
nis_local_host(3N) NIS+ local names
nis_local_names(3N) NIS+ local names
nis_local_principal(3N) NIS+ local names
nis_lookup(3N) NIS+ namespace functions
nis_map_group(3N) NIS+ group manipulation functions
nis_mkdir(3N) miscellaneous NIS+ functions
nis_modify(3N) NIS+ namespace functions
nis_modify_entry(3N) NIS+ table functions
nis_name_of(3N) NIS+ subroutines
nis_names(3N) NIS+ namespace functions
nis_next_entry(3N) NIS+ table functions
nis_objects(3N) NIS+ object formats
nis_perror(3N) display NIS+ error messages
nis_ping(3N) misc NIS+ log administration functions
nis_print_group_entry(3N) NIS+ group manipulation functions
nis_print_object(3N) NIS+ subroutines
nis_remove(3N) NIS+ namespace functions
nis_remove_entry(3N) NIS+ table functions
nis_removemember(3N) NIS+ group manipulation functions
nis_rmdir(3N) miscellaneous NIS+ functions
nis_server(3N) miscellaneous NIS+ functions
nis_servstate(3N) miscellaneous NIS+ functions
nis_sperrno(3N) display NIS+ error messages
nis_sperror(3N) display NIS+ error messages
nis_sperror_r(3N) display NIS+ error messages
nis_stats(3N) miscellaneous NIS+ functions
nis_subr(3N) NIS+ subroutines
nis_tables(3N) NIS+ table functions
nis_verifygroup(3N) NIS+ group manipulation functions
NIS+ Files and Directories
nisfiles(4) NIS+ database files and directory
structure
WARNINGS [Toc] [Back]
HP-UX 11i Version 2 is the last HP-UX release on which NIS+ is
supported.
LDAP is the recommended replacement for NIS+. HP fully supports the
industry standard naming services based on LDAP.
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AUTHOR [Toc] [Back]
NIS+ was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
FILES [Toc] [Back]
<rpcsvc/nis_object.h> Protocol description of an NIS+
object.
<rpcsvc/nis.h> Defines the NIS+ protocol using the
RPC language. It should be included
by all clients of the NIS+ service
SEE ALSO [Toc] [Back]
nischown(1), nisdefaults(1), nismatch(1), nispasswd(1), newkey(1M),
nisaddcred(1M), nisclient(1M), nispopulate(1M), nisserver(1M),
nis_add_entry(3N), nis_domain_of(3N), nis_getnames(3N),
nis_groups(3N), nis_leaf_of(3N), nis_list(3N),
nis_local_directory(3N), nis_lookup(3N), nis_objects(3N).
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