1MKNETID(8) NIS Reference Manual MKNETID(8)
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6 mknetid - generate data for netid map
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9 /usr/lib/yp/mknetid [-q] [-h hosts] [-p passwd] [-g group] [-d domain]
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12 /usr/lib/yp/mknetid --version
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15 mknetid generates the netid.byname NIS map from the contents of the
16 group(5), passwd(5), hosts(5) and netid files. It checks for multiple
17 entrys of netids and warn for them or filters them out. It is only
18 called by /var/yp/Makefile when rebuilding the NIS map.
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21 -q
22 This flag turns on 'quiet' mode, don't print a warning message when
23 finding an duplicate netid entry.
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25 -h hosts
26 The -h flag can be used to specify the use of another hosts file
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29 -p passwd
30 The -p flag can be used to specify the use of another passwd file
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34 The -g flag can be used to specify the use of another group file
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38 The -n flag can be used to specify the use of another netid file
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42 The mknetid command uses the system domainname by default. If it is
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46 Prints the version number
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49 /etc/group
50 groups file
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53 hosts database
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59 password file
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62 passwd(8), group(5), hosts(5), passwd(5)
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65 mknetid was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@linux-nis.org>.
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