mknetid (8) Linux Manual Page

Options

-q

This flag turns on ‘quiet’ mode, don’t print a warning message when finding an duplicate netid entry.

-h hosts

The -h flag can be used to specify the use of another hosts file than the default /etc/hosts.

-p passwd

The -p flag can be used to specify the use of another passwd file than the default /etc/passwd.

-g group

The -g flag can be used to specify the use of another group file than the default /etc/group.

-n netid

The -n flag can be used to specify the use of another netid file than the default /etc/netid.

-d domain

The mknetid command uses the system domainname by default. If it is not set or you whish to override it, you must use the -d parameter.

–version

Prints the version number

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 [at] linux-nis.org>.