February 26, 2005 NETID 5

### NAME

netid - NIS network credential file

### DESCRIPTION

Files in netid format are rare. One lives in the NIS map ```netid.byname`. The format is rather simple. Each row consists of two items, a key and a value. When created by mknetid(8) there are three kind of records.

The first type is information about which gids a uid has: ``

    unix.<uid>@<yp-domain> <uid>:<gid>,<gid>

The second type has informations about hosts: ``

    unix.<hostname>@<yp-domain> 0:<hostname>

The third type is records from a netid file other than the two types above.

### FILES

```/etc/netid`
  A file for lines not generated automatically by mknetid(8).

### EXAMPLES

A configuration file might appear as follows: `

    unix.10714@kaka 10714:400,10
    unix.jodie@kaka 0:jodie

`

### SEE ALSO

mknetid(8), nis(8)

### AUTHORS

Mats O Jansson <moj@stacken.kth.se>