ONC+ Developer's Guide

NIS+ Administration Commands

NIS+ provides a full set of commands for administering a namespace.

Table 5-1 summarizes them.

Table 5-1 NIS+ Namespace Administration Commands

Command 

Description 

nischgrp

Changes the group owner of a NIS+ object. 

nischmod

Changes an object's access rights. 

nischown

Changes the owner of a NIS+ object. 

nisgrpadm

Creates or destroys a 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. 

niscat

Displays the contents of NIS+ tables. 

nisgrep

Searches for entries in a NIS+ table. 

nisls

Lists the contents of a NIS+ directory. 

nismatch

Searches for entries in a NIS+ table. 

nisaddent

Adds information from /etc files or NIS maps into NIS+ tables.

nistbladm

Creates or deletes NIS+ tables, and adds, modifies or deletes entries in a NIS+ table.  

nisaddcred

Creates credentials for NIS+ principals and stores them in the Cred table. 

nispasswd

Changes password information stored in the NIS+ Passwd table.  

nisupdkeys

Updates the public keys stored in a NIS+ object. 

nisinit

Initializes a NIS+ client or server. 

nismkdir

Creates a NIS+ directory and specifies its master and replica servers. 

nisrmdir

Removes NIS+ directories and replicas from the namespace. 

nissetup

Creates org_dir and groups_dir directories and a complete set of (unpopulated) NIS+ tables for a NIS+ domain.

rpc.nisd

The NIS+ server process. 

nis_cachemgr

Starts the NIS+ Cache Manager on a NIS+ client. 

nischttl

Changes a NIS+ object's time-to-live value. 

nisdefaults

Lists a NIS+ object's default values: domain name, group name, workstation name, NIS+ principal name, access rights, directory search path, and time-to-live. 

nisln

Creates a symbolic link between two NIS+ objects. 

nisrm

Removes NIS+ objects (except directories) from the namespace. 

nisshowcache

Lists the contents of the NIS+ shared cache maintained by the NIS+ Cache Manager.