ypmatch(1) General Commands Manual ypmatch(1)NAME
ypmatch - print the values of one or more keys from a NIS map
SYNOPSIS
ypmatch [ -kt ] [ -d domain ] key ... mapname
ypmatch -x
DESCRIPTION
ypmatch prints the values of one or more keys from the NIS database specified by mapname, which may be a map name or a map nickname.
OPTIONS -d domain
Specify a domain other than the default domain as returned by domainname(8).
-k Display map keys. This option is useful with maps in which the values are null or the key is not part of the value.
-t This option inhibits map nickname translation.
-x Display the map nickname translation table.
FILES
/var/yp/nicknames
map nickname translation table.
SEE ALSO domainname(8), nicknames(5), ypbind(8), ypcat(1), yppoll(8), ypserv(8), ypset(8), ypwhich(1)AUTHOR
ypmatch is part of the yp-tools package, which was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@linux-nis.org>.
YP Tools 2.12 April 2010 ypmatch(1)
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ypcat(1) General Commands Manual ypcat(1)NAME
ypcat - print values of all keys in a NIS database
SYNOPSIS
ypcat [ -kt ] [ -d domain ] [ -h hostname ] mapname
ypcat -x
DESCRIPTION
ypcat prints the values of all keys from the NIS database specified by mapname, which may be a map name or a map nickname.
OPTIONS -d domain
Specify a domain other than the default domain as returned by domainname(8).
-h hostname
Specify a hostname other than the default one as found by ypbind(8).
-k Display map keys. This option is useful with maps in which the values are null or the key is not part of the value.
-t This option inhibits map nickname translation.
-x Display the map nickname translation table.
FILES
/var/yp/nicknames
map nickname translation table.
SEE ALSO domainname(8), nicknames(5), ypbind(8), ypmatch(1), yppoll(8), ypserv(8), ypset(8), ypwhich(1)AUTHOR
ypcat is part of the yp-tools package, which was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@linux-nis.org>.
YP Tools 2.12 April 2010 ypcat(1)
Hello,
We can get the full info by typing:
ypmatch username passwd
aaaa : yyyy: ... ... : LastName Gname : ... ...
However, I'd like to know how could we get the username based on LastName and Given name please?
Thanks a lot,
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Hello - I have a script which creates a NIS user on Solaris machine. Before creating the user I check if the user being created laready exists or not using ypmatch and use $? to get the exit code. If a user exists, I get 0, works fine. However when the user is not found, the shell scripts exits by... (1 Reply)
I've recently published a set of tools that allow you to continue to use the ypwhich, ypcat and ypmatch tools in an environment where NIS maps have been migrated to LDAP using the RFC2307 schema.
Traditionally in such an environment, only the NSS functionality is LDAP-enabled, meaning that... (0 Replies)
I cannot use my id in ypmatch.
wats is the use of this. to whom I need to check it out to get done
ypmatch ssmfkfaliases
ypmatch: can't match ssmfkf.
Reason: no such map in server's NIS domain (1 Reply)