Solaris Naming Administration Guide

Loading Information From a File

You can transfer the contents of a file into an NIS+ table in several different ways:

The -f option with no other option replaces the contents of table-type in the local domain with the contents of filename.

nisaddent -f filename table-type

With the -a option, -f appends the contents of filename to table-type.

nisaddent -a -f filename table-type

With the -m option, -f merges the contents of filename into the contents of table-type.

nisaddent -m -f filename table-type

The following two examples load the contents of a text file named /etc/passwd.xfr into the NIS+ Passwd table. The first is into a table in the local domain, the second into a table in another domain:

rootmaster# /usr/lib/nis/nisaddent -f /etc/passwd.xfr passwd
rootmaster# /usr/lib/nis/nisaddent -f /etc/shadow.xfr shadow
rootmaster# /usr/lib/nis/nisaddent -f /etc/passwd.xfr passwd sales.doc.com.
rootmaster# /usr/lib/nis/nisaddent -f /etc/shadow.xfr shadow sales.doc.com.

Note -

When creating an NIS+ passwd table from /etc files, you must run nisaddent twice; once on the /etc/passwd file and once on the /etc/shadow file.

Another way is to use stdin as the source. However, you cannot use the -m option with stdin. You can use redirect (->) or pipe (-|), but you cannot pipe into another domain.

Task	Command
Redirect	`cat filename > nisaddent table-type`
Redirect with append option	`cat filename > nisaddent -a table-type`
Redirect with append into another domain	`cat filename > nisaddent -a table-type NIS+ domain`
Pipe	`cat filename \| nisaddent table-type`
Pipe with append option	`cat filename \| nisaddent -a table-type`

If the NIS+ table is an automounter table or a nonstandard table, add the -t option and the complete name of the NIS+ table.

master# nisaddent -f /etc/auto_home.xfr \
  -t auto_home.org_dir.doc.com.key-value
master# nisaddent -f /etc/auto_home.xfr \
  -t auto_home.org_dir.doc.com. key-value sales.doc.com.