NIS+ API

The NIS+ application programmer's interface (API) is a group of functions that can be called by an application to access and modify NIS+ objects. The NIS+ API has 54 functions that fall into nine categories:

• Object manipulation functions (nis_names())

• Table access functions (nis_tables())

• Local name functions (nis_local_names())

• Group manipulation functions (nis_groups())

• Application subroutine functions (nis_subr())

• Miscellaneous functions (nis_misc())

• Database access functions (nis_db())

• Error message display functions (nis_error())

• Transaction log functions (nis_admin())