HP-UX Reference (11i v2 03/08) - 1 User Commands N-Z (vol 2)

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nisgrpadm(1) nisgrpadm(1)
Administering Members
Add two principals, bob and betty to the group
my_buds.foo.com:
nisgrpadm -a my_buds.foo.com. bob.bar.com. betty.foo.com.
Remove betty from freds_group:
nisgrpadm -r freds_group betty.foo.com.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables
NIS_PATH If this variable is set and the NIS+ group name is not fully qualified, each directory
specified will be searched until the group is found (see nisdefaults (1)).
WARNINGS
HP-UX 11i Version 2 is the last HP-UX release on which NIS+ is supported.
LDAP is the recommended replacement for NIS+. HP fully supports the industry standard naming ser-
vices based on LDAP.
DIAGNOSTICS
NIS_SUCCESS On success, this command returns an exit status of
0.
NIS_PERMISSION
When you do not have the needed access right to change the group, the command
returns this error.
NIS_NOTFOUND This is returned when the group does not exist.
NIS_TRYAGAIN This error is returned when the server for the group’s domain is currently checkpoint-
ing or otherwise in a read-only state. The command should be retried at a later date.
NIS_MODERROR This error is returned when the group was modified by someone else during the execu-
tion of the command. Reissue the command and optionally recheck the group’s
membership list.
AUTHOR
nisgrpadm was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
SEE ALSO
nis+(1), nischgrp(1), nisdefaults(1), niserror(1), nis_groups(3N).
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