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Philippe Troin
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nicknames

Section: File Formats (5)
Updated: May 1999
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NAME

/var/yp/nicknames - nickname translation table for NIS maps

DESCRIPTION

nicknames contains a list of aliases and the corresponding NIS maps. There is one entry per line. The default nicknames table looks like:


passwd: passwd.byname
group: group.byname
networks: networks.byaddr
hosts: hosts.byname
protocols: protocols.bynumber
services: services.byname
aliases: mail.aliases
ethers: ethers.byname

SEE ALSO

ypcat(1), ypmatch(1), ypserv(8), ypwhich(1)

AUTHOR

The yp-tools package was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>.

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