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NIS maps
- Particular way of accessing a file.
- passwd.byname map looks
up data in the passwd database by username.
- Additional maps that look up
uid, gid, home directory, ...
- netid.byname looks up several files--
group, passwd and hosts files.
- ...
Sridhar Iyer
2001-01-08