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8.15 <tt class=
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Interface to Sun's NIS (Yellow Pages)
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<p class=
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<span
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The
<tt class=
"module">nis
</tt> module gives a thin wrapper around the NIS library, useful
for central administration of several hosts.
Because NIS exists only on
<span class=
"Unix">Unix
</span> systems, this module is
only available for
<span class=
"Unix">Unix
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The
<tt class=
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</tt> module defines the following functions:
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3077'
class=
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</nobr></td>
<td><var>key, mapname
</var>)
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Return the match for
<var>key
</var> in map
<var>mapname
</var>, or raise an
error (
<tt class=
"exception">nis.error
</tt>) if there is none.
Both should be strings,
<var>key
</var> is
8-bit clean.
Return value is an arbitrary array of bytes (may contain
<code>NULL
</code>
Note that
<var>mapname
</var> is first checked if it is an alias to another
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class=
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</nobr></td>
<td><var>mapname
</var>)
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Return a dictionary mapping
<var>key
</var> to
<var>value
</var> such that
<code>match(
<var>key
</var>,
<var>mapname
</var>)==
<var>value
</var></code>.
Note that both keys and values of the dictionary are arbitrary
Note that
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</var> is first checked if it is an alias to another
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<td><var></var>)
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Return a list of all valid maps.
The
<tt class=
"module">nis
</tt> module defines the following exception:
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"typelabel">exception
</span> <tt id='l2h-
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An error raised when a NIS function returns an error code.
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