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Availability: UNIX.
The nis module gives a thin wrapper around the NIS library, useful
for central administration of several hosts.
Because NIS exists only on Unix systems, this module is
only available for Unix.
The nis module defines the following functions:
| match( |
key, mapname[, domain=default_domain]) |
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Return the match for key in map mapname, or raise an
error (nis.error) if there is none.
Both should be strings, key is 8-bit clean.
Return value is an arbitrary array of bytes (may contain
NULL
and other joys).
Note that mapname is first checked if it is an alias to another
name.
Changed in version 2.5:
The domain argument allows to override
the NIS domain used for the lookup. If unspecified, lookup is in the
default NIS domain.
| cat( |
mapname[, domain=default_domain]) |
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Return a dictionary mapping key to value such that
match(key, mapname)==value.
Note that both keys and values of the dictionary are arbitrary
arrays of bytes.
Note that mapname is first checked if it is an alias to another
name.
Changed in version 2.5:
The domain argument allows to override
the NIS domain used for the lookup. If unspecified, lookup is in the
default NIS domain.
| maps( |
[domain=default_domain]) |
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Return a list of all valid maps.
Changed in version 2.5:
The domain argument allows to override
the NIS domain used for the lookup. If unspecified, lookup is in the
default NIS domain.
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Return the system default NIS domain.
New in version 2.5.
The nis module defines the following exception:
- exception error
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An error raised when a NIS function returns an error code.
Release 2.5.2, documentation updated on 21th February, 2008.
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