System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (NIS+)

NIS+ Administration Commands

NIS+ provides a full set of commands for administering a namespace. The table below, summarizes them.

Note –

Most of the command line administrative tasks associated with the NIS+ service are managed by the Service Management Facility (SMF). For details about using SMF with NIS+, see NIS+ and the Service Management Facility. For an overview of SMF, refer to Chapter 18, Managing Services (Overview), in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration. Also refer to the svcadm(1M) and svcs(1) man pages for more details.

Table 2–2 NIS+ Namespace Administration Commands


Command	Description
`nisaddcred`	Creates credentials for NIS+ principals and stores them in the cred table.
`nisaddent`	Adds information from `/etc` files or NIS maps into NIS+ tables.
`nisauthconf`	Optionally configure Diffie-Hellman key length.
`nisbackup`	Backs up NIS directories.
`nis_cachemgr`	Starts the NIS+ cache manager on an NIS+ client.
`niscat`	Displays the contents of NIS+ tables.
`nis_checkpoint`	Forces service to checkpoint data that has been entered in the log but not checkpointed to disk.
`nischgrp`	Changes the group owner of an NIS+ object.
`nischmod`	Changes an object's access rights.
`nischown`	Changes the owner of an NIS+ object.
`nischttl`	Changes an NIS+ object's time-to-live value.
`nisclient`	Initializes NIS+ principals.
`nisdefaults`	Lists an NIS+ object's default values: domain name, group name, machine name, NIS+ principal name, access rights, directory search path, and time-to-live.
`nisgrep`	Searches for entries in an NIS+ table.
`nisgrpadm`	Creates or destroys an NIS+ group, or displays a list of its members. Also adds members to a group, removes them, or tests them for membership in the group.
`nisinit`	Initializes an NIS+ client or server.
`nisln`	Creates a symbolic link between two NIS+ tables.
`nislog`	Displays the contents of NIS+ transaction log.
`nisls`	Lists the contents of an NIS+ directory.
`nismatch`	Searches for entries in an NIS+ table.
`nismkdir`	Creates an NIS+ directory and specifies its master and replica servers.
`nispasswd`	Changes password information stored in the NIS+ passwd table. (Rather than using `nispasswd`, you should use `passwd` or `passwd -r nisplus`.)
`nis_ping`	Forces a replica to update its data from the master server.
`nispopulate`	Populates the NIS+ tables in a new NIS+ domain.
`nisprefadm`	Specifies the order in which clients are to seek NIS+ information from NIS+ servers.
`nisrestore`	Restores previously backed up NIS+ directories and can also be used to quickly bring online new NIS+ replica servers.
`nisrm`	Removes NIS+ objects (except directories) from the namespace.
`nisrmdir`	Removes NIS+ directories and replicas from the namespace.
`nisserver`	Shell script used to set up a new NIS+ server.
`nissetup`	Creates `org_dir` and `groups_dir` directories and a complete set of (unpopulated) NIS+ tables for an NIS+ domain.
`nisshowcache`	Lists the contents of the NIS+ shared cache maintained by the NIS+ cache manager.
`nisstat`	Reports statistics and other information about an NIS+ server.
`nistbladm`	Creates or deletes NIS+ tables, and adds, modifies or deletes entries in an NIS+ table.
`nistest`	Reports the current state of the NIS+ namespace.
`nisupdkeys`	Updates the public keys stored in an NIS+ object.
`passwd`	Changes password information stored in the NIS+ Passwd table. Also administers password aging and other password-related parameters.