netid(4) - osol9

1netid(4)                         File Formats                         netid(4)
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NAME

6       netid - netname database
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SYNOPSIS

9       /etc/netid
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DESCRIPTION

13       The  netid  file  is  a local source of information on mappings between
14       netnames (see secure_rpc(3NSL)) and user ids or hostnames in the  local
15       domain.  The netid file can be used in conjunction with, or instead of,
16       the  network source: NIS or  NIS+. The  publickey entry  in  the   nss‐
17       witch.conf  (see   nsswitch.conf(4))  file  determines  which  of these
18       sources will be queried by the system to translate  netnames  to  local
19       user ids or hostnames.
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22       Each entry in the netid file is a single line of the form:
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36       The  first  entry associates a local user id with a netname. The second
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40       The  netid file field descriptions are as follows:
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42       netname     The operating system independent network name for the  user
43                   or  host.  netname has one of two formats.  The format used
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48                   where  hostname is the name of the host and  domain is  the
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51                   The format used to specify a user id is of the form:
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55                   where uid is the numerical id of the user and domain is the
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59       uid         The numerical id of the user (see   passwd(4)). When speci‐
60                   fying a host name, uid is always zero.
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63       group       The  numerical  id  of  the  group the user belongs to (see
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EXAMPLES

76       Example 1 A sample netid file.
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79       Here is a sample netid file:
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82         unix.789@West.Sun.COM    789:30,65
83         unix.123@Bldg_xy.Sun.COM 123:20,1521
84         unix.candlestick@campus1.bayarea.EDU    0:candlestick
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FILES

89       /etc/group        groups file
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92       /etc/hosts        hosts database
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95       /etc/netid        netname database
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98       /etc/passwd       password file
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