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NAME [Toc] [Back]
nistbladm - NIS+ table administration command
SYNOPSIS [Toc] [Back]
nistbladm -a|-A [ -D defaults ] colname=value ...
tablename
nistbladm -a|-A [ -D defaults ] indexedname
nistbladm -c [ -D defaults ] [ -p path ] [ -s sep ] type
colname=[flags][,access] ... tablename
nistbladm -d tablename
nistbladm -e|-E colname=value ... indexedname
nistbladm -m colname=value ... indexedname
nistbladm -r|-R [ colname=value ... ] tablename
nistbladm -r|-R indexedname
nistbladm -u [ -p path ] [ -s sep ] [ -t type ]
[ colname=access ... ] tablename
DESCRIPTION [Toc] [Back]
The nistbladm command is used to administer NIS+ tables. There are
five primary operations that it performs: creating and deleting
tables, adding entries to, modifying entries within, and removing
entries from tables.
Though NIS+ does not place restrictions on the size of tables or
entries, the size of data has an impact on the performance and the
disk space requirements of the NIS+ server. NIS+ is not designed to
store huge pieces of data, such as files; instead pointers to files
should be stored in NIS+.
NIS+ design is optimized to support 10,000 objects with a total size
of 10M bytes. If the requirements exceed the above, it is suggested
that a domain hierarchy be created, or the data stored in the tables
be pointers to the actual data, instead of the data itself.
When creating tables, a table type, type, and a list of column
definitions must be provided.
type is a string that is stored in the table and later used by the
service to verify that entries being added to it are of the correct
type.
Syntax for column definitions is:
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colname=[flags][,access]
flags is a combination of:
S Searchable. Specifies that searches can be done on the
column's values (see nismatch(1)).
I Case-insensitive (only makes sense in combination with
S). Specifies that searches should ignore case.
C Crypt. Specifies that the column's values should be
encrypted.
B Binary data (does not make sense in combination with S).
If not set, the column's values are expected to be null
terminated ASCII strings.
X XDR encoded data (only makes sense in combination with
B).
access is specified in the format as defined by the nischmod(1)
command.
When manipulating entries, this command takes two forms of entry name.
The first uses a series of space separated colname=value pairs that
specify column values in the entry. The second is an NIS+ indexed
name, indexedname, of the form:
[ colname=value, ... ],tablename
Options [Toc] [Back]
-a | A Add entries to a NIS+ table. The difference
between the lowercase `a' and the uppercase `A' is
in the treatment of preexisting entries. The
entry's contents are specified by the column=value
pairs on the command line. Note: Values for all
columns must be specified when adding entries to a
table.
Normally, NIS+ reports an error if an attempt is
made to add an entry to a table that would
overwrite an entry that already exists. This
prevents multiple parties from adding duplicate
entries and having one of them get overwritten.
If you wish to force the add, the uppercase `A'
specifies that the entry is to be added, even if
it already exists. This is analogous to a modify
operation on the entry.
-c Create a table named tablename in the namespace.
The table that is created must have at least one
column and at least one column must be searchable.
-d tablename Destroy the table named tablename. The table that
is being destroyed must be empty. The table's
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contents can be deleted with the -R option below.
-e|E Edit the entry in the table that is specified by
indexdname. indexdname must uniquely identify a
single entry. It is possible to edit the value in
a column that would change the indexed name of an
entry.
The change (colname=value) may affect other
entries in the table if the change results in an
entry whose indexed name is different from
indexedname and which matches that of another
existing entry. In this case, the -e option will
fail and an error will be reported. The -E option
will force the replacement of the existing entry
by the new entry (effectively removing two old
entries and adding a new one).
-m Modify an entry in the table that is specified by
indexedname. Note: Since it is possible to
modify the value in a column that would change the
indexed name for an entry, both the column value
pair and the indexed name are required. It uses
the indexed name to look up the entry, modify it,
and write it back with the new value. The indexed
name must uniquely identify a single entry.
-r|R Remove entries from a table. The entry is
specified by either a series of column=value pairs
on the command line, or an indexed name that is
specified as entryname. The difference between
the interpretation of the lowercase r versus the
uppercase R is in the treatment of non-unique
entry specifications. Normally the NIS+ server
will disallow an attempt to remove an entry when
the search criterion specified for that entry
resolves to more than one entry in the table.
However, it is sometimes desirable to remove more
than one entry, as when you are attempting to
remove all of the entries from a table. In this
case, using the uppercase R will force the NIS+
server to remove all entries matching the passed
search criterion. If that criterion is null and
no column values specified, then all entries in
the table will be removed.
-u Update attributes of a table. This allows the
concatenation path (-p), separation character
(specified with the (-s)), column access rights,
and table type string (-t) of a table to be
changed. Neither the number of columns, nor the
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columns that are searchable may be changed.
-D defaults When creating objects, this option specifies a
different set of defaults to be used during this
operation. The defaults string is a series of
tokens separated by colons. These tokens
represent the default values to be used for the
generic object properties. All of the legal
tokens are described below.
ttl=time This token sets the default time to live
for objects that are created by this
command. The value time is specified in
the format as defined by the nischttl(1)
command. The default value is 12 hours.
owner=ownername
This token specifies that the NIS+
principal ownername should own the
created object. Normally this value is
the same as the principal who is
executing the command.
group=groupname
This token specifies that the group
groupname should be the group owner for
the object that is created. The default
value is NULL.
access=rights
This token specifies the set of access
rights to be granted for the given
object. The value rights is specified
in the format as defined by the
nischmod(1) command. The default value
is ----rmcdr---r---.
-p path When creating or updating a table, this option
specifies the table's search path. When an
nis_list() function is invoked, the user can
specify the flag FOLLOW_PATH to tell the client
library to continue searching tables in the
table's path if the search criteria used does not
yield any entries. The path consists of an ordered
list of table names, separated by colons. The
names in the path must be fully qualified.
-s sep When creating or updating a table, this option
specifies the table's separator character. The
separator character is used by niscat(1) when
displaying tables on the standard output. Its
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purpose is to separate column data when the table
is in ASCII form. The default value is a space.
-t type When updating a table, this option specifies the
table's type string.
RETURN VALUE [Toc] [Back]
This example returns 0 on success and 1 on failure.
EXAMPLES [Toc] [Back]
Create a table named hobbies in the directory foo.com. of the type
hobby_tbl with two searchable columns, name and hobby:
nistbladm -c hobby_tbl name=S,a+r,o+m hobby=S,a+r
hobbies.foo.com.
The column name has read access for all (that is, owner, group, and
world) and modify access for only the owner. The column hobby is
readable by all, but not modifiable by anyone.
In this example, if the access rights had not been specified, the
tables access rights would have come from either the standard defaults
or the NIS_DEFAULTS variable (see below).
Add entries to this table:
nistbladm -a name=bob hobby=skiing hobbies.foo.com.
nistbladm -a name=sue hobby=skiing hobbies.foo.com.
nistbladm -a name=ted hobby=swimming hobbies.foo.com.
Add the concatenation path:
nistbladm -u -p hobbies.bar.com.:hobbies.baz.com. hobbies
Delete the skiers from our list:
nistbladm -R hobby=skiing hobbies.foo.com.
Note: The use of the -r option would fail because there are two
entries with the value of skiing.
To create a table with a column that is named with no flags set, you
supply only the name and the equal sign (=) as follows:
nistbladm -c notes_tbl name=S,a+r,o+m note= notes.foo.com.
This example created a table, named notes.foo.com.,oftype notes_tbl
with two columns name and note. The note column is not searchable.
When entering data for columns in the form of a value string, it is
essential that terminal characters be protected by single or double
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quotes. These are the characters equals (=), comma (,), left bracket
([), right bracket (]), and space ( ). These characters are parsed by
NIS+ within an indexed name. These characters are protected by
enclosing the entire value in double quote (") characters as follows:
nistbladm -a fullname="Joe User" nickname=Joe nicknames
If there is any doubt about how the string will be parsed, it is
better to enclose it in quotes.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES [Toc] [Back]
Environment Variables
NIS_DEFAULTS This variable contains a defaults string that will
override the NIS+ standard defaults. If the -D
switch is used, those values will then override both
the NIS_DEFAULTS variable and the standard defaults.
NIS_PATH If this variable is set and the NIS+ table name is
not fully qualified, each directory specified will
be searched until the table is found (see
nisdefaults(1)).
WARNINGS [Toc] [Back]
To modify one of the entries, say, for example, from bob to robert:
nistbladm -m name=robert [name=bob],hobbies
Note that [name=bob],hobbies is an indexed name, and that the
characters `[' (open bracket) and `]' (close bracket) are interpreted
by the shell. When typing entry names in the form of NIS+ indexed
names, the name must be protected by using single quotes.
It is possible to specify a set of defaults such that you cannot read
or modify the table object later.
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.
AUTHOR [Toc] [Back]
nistbladm was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
SEE ALSO [Toc] [Back]
nis+(1), niscat(1), nischmod(1), nischown(1), nisdefaults(1),
nismatch(1), nissetup(1M).
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