NIS+ Administration Commands

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.

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, workstation 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.