NFS Services Administrator's Guide

Configuring and Administering NIS
Summary of NIS Commands
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Summary of NIS Commands
Table 4-1 Summary of NIS Commands
chkey(1)
Creates or changes a secure RPC key.
domainname(1) Sets or displays the name of the NIS domain.
keylogin(1) Decrypts and stores a secure RPC key. keylogin is called when a u
s
logs in, but the user must issue keylogin if no password was provi
d
at login or if a password other than the login password was used to
encrypt the secure RPC key.
keylogout(1) Deletes a stored decrypted secure RPC key.
makedbm(1M) Generates an NIS map from an ASCII input file.
newkey(1M) Creates a secure RPC key for a user or host.
ypcat(1) Prints all the values in an NIS map.
ypinit(1M) Sets up an NIS master server or slave server.
ypmake(1M) Generates one or more NIS maps from ASCII files and optionally
pushes them to NIS slave servers. /var/yp/Makefile and make(1)
the same thing.
ypmatch(1) Prints the values associated with one or more selected keys in an
N
map.
yppasswd(1) Changes a login password stored in the NIS passwd map.
yppoll(1M) Returns the name of the master server for an NIS map and the ti
m
when the map was built.
yppush(1M) Forces NIS slave servers to transfer one or more NIS maps from th
e
master server. Slave servers use ypxfr to transfer the maps. ypma
k
calls yppush unless it is invoked with NOPUSH=1.
ypset(1M) Tells an NIS client process (ypbind[1M]) to bind to a specified NIS
server. ypset can be used only if ypbind is invoked with the -ypse
t
option.
ypwhich(1) Returns the name of the NIS server for the local client or the nam
e
the NIS master server for one or more NIS maps.