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NETID(5)                  NetBSD 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> NetBSD 6.0.4 February 26, 2005 NetBSD 6.0.4

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