NETID(5) BSD File Formats Manual NETID(5)
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>
BSD
February 26, 2005 BSD
