nicknames(5)
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>.