HP-UX Reference (11i v2 07/12) - 1 User Commands N-Z (vol 2)

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nischgrp(1) nischgrp(1)
NAME
nischgrp - change the group owner of an NIS+ object
SYNOPSIS
nischgrp [ -AfLP ] group name ...
DESCRIPTION
nischgrp changes the group owner of the NIS+ objects or entries specified by name to the specified NIS+
group. Entries are specified using indexed names (see nismatch(1)). If group is not a fully qualified NIS+
group name, it will be resolved using the directory search path (see nisdefaults(1)).
The only restriction on changing an object’s group owner is that you must have modify permissions for the
object.
This command will fail if the master NIS+ server is not running.
Options
-A Modify all entries in all tables in the concatenation path that match the search criterion specified in
name. This option implies the -P switch.
-f Force the operation and fail silently if it does not succeed.
-L Follow links and change the group owner of the linked object or entries rather than the group owner
of the link itself.
-P Follow the concatenation path within a named table. This option only makes sense when either name
is an indexed name or the
-L switch is also specified and the named object is a link pointing to
entries.
Notes
The NIS+ server will check the validity of the group name prior to effecting the modification.
EXAMPLES
Change the group owner of an object to a group in a different domain, and how to change it to a group in
the local domain, respectively:
nischgrp newgroup.remote.domain. object
nischgrp my-buds object
Change the group owner for a password entry:
nischgrp admins ’[uid=99],passwd.org_dir’
In the above example, admins is an NIS+ group in the same domain.
Change the group owner of the object or entries pointed to by a link, and the group owner of all entries in
the hobbies table:
nischgrp -L my-buds linkname
nischgrp my-buds ’[],hobbies’
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables
NIS_PATH If this variable is set and the NIS+ name is not fully qualified, each directory specified will
be searched until the object is found (see nisdefaults(1)).
RETURN VALUE
nischgrp returns 0 on success and 1 on failure.
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.
AUTHOR
nischgrp was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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