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:
key, mapname[, domain=default_domain]) |
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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.
mapname[, domain=default_domain]) |
match(key, mapname)==value
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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.
[domain=default_domain]) |
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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The nis module defines the following exception: