NAME

yphelper - helper application for internal use

DESCRIPTION

yphelper is a internal helper application for ypserv and should not be used by the normal user or system administrator.

-d domainname

Use domainname as default domain.

-h

Print the canonical hostname.

-i map

Return '0' if we are the NIS master of map or '1' if not.

-m master

Print the name of all NIS maps where master is the NIS master server.

-p passwdshadow

Merge the passwd and shadow files.

-g groupgshadow

Merge the group and gshadow files.

yphelper was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@linux-nis.org>.

12/31/2020

NIS Reference Manual