MKNETID(8)

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💖 MKNETID(8) — the NIS Reference Manual one 💖

okay bestie, welcome to mknetid, a lil program from the NIS Reference Manual (section 8, system admin territory, very grown-up of it ✨).

🌸 NAME 🌸

mknetid — generate data for netid map 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

/usr/lib/yp/mknetid [-q] [-h hosts] [-p passwd] [-g group] [-d domain]
                    [-n netid]

/usr/lib/yp/mknetid --version

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea: mknetid builds the netid.byname NIS map out of whatever's chillin' in your group(5), passwd(5), hosts(5) and netid files. that's its whole thing. it's giving data-wrangler. 🫶

and the way it checks for multiple entries of netids?? obsessed. it either warns you about the duplicates or just filters them out — its choice, its moment. 💅

ngl though, this isn't a program you call yourself. it's only ever called by /var/yp/Makefile when it's rebuilding the NIS map. so if you see it in the wild, that's why. iykyk ✨

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -q — turns on 'quiet' mode. so when it finds a duplicate netid entry, it will NOT print a warning message. silent. stealth. 🤫
  • -h hosts — lets you point at a different hosts file instead of the default /etc/hosts. 💖
  • -p passwd — lets you point at a different passwd file instead of the default /etc/passwd. 🍓
  • -g group — lets you point at a different group file instead of the default /etc/group. 🌈
  • -n netid — lets you point at a different netid file instead of the default /etc/netid. 🧚
  • -d domain — by default mknetid just uses the system domainname. but if it's not set, or you wish to override it (their spelling, not mine, bestie 😭), you gotta use the -d parameter. no way around it. 👑
  • --version — prints the version number. that's it. that's the whole job. ⭐

💜 FILES 💜

  • /etc/group — groups file
  • /etc/hosts — hosts database
  • /etc/netid — netname database
  • /etc/passwd — password file

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

passwd(8), group(5), hosts(5), passwd(5)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

mknetid was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@linux-nis.org>. king behaviour, fr fr. 🫶

💌 and that's the whole page!! this was the NIS Reference Manual edition, dated 12/31/2020, page MKNETID(8). slay, bye bestie 💖✨🎀
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