NETID(5)

NAME
netid - YP network credential file

DESCRIPTION
Files in netid format are rare. One lives in the YP map netid.byname. The format is rather simple. Each row consists of two items: a key and a value. When created by mknetid(8) there are three types of records.

The first type is information about which GIDs a UID has:

unix.<uid>@<yp-domain> <uid>:<gid>,<gid>

The second type contains information about hosts:

unix.<hostname>@<yp-domain> 0:<hostname>

The third type refers to records from a netid file other than the two types above.

FILES
/etc/netid
    for lines not generated automatically by mknetid(8)

EXAMPLES
A configuration file might look like the following:

    unix.10714@kaka 10714:400,10
    unix.jodie@kaka 0:jodie

SEE ALSO
mknetid(8), yp(8)

AUTHORS
Mats O Jansson <moj@stacken.kth.se>