ypmapxlate(NF)                  19 June 1992                  ypmapxlate(NF)


 Name

    ypmapxlate - translation table to handle long NIS map names

 Syntax

    /etc/yp/YP_MAP_X_LATE

 Description

    An NIS map name, X, under domain, Y, exists as the two files named X.pag
    and X.dir, both under the directory path, /etc/yp/Y/.  However, under
    System V, the length of the name, X, can be no more than ten (10) charac-
    ters, since ten added to the length of the extension .{pag,dir} is equal
    to fourteen (14), which is the maximum file name length under System V.
    A critical NIS map name such as passwd.byname would be a problem to
    represent on a System V file system.

    The file, /etc/yp/YP_MAP_X_LATE, contains entries of the form:

       longmapname   shortmapname

    When the NIS server receives a packet containing a logical (long) map
    name, this file is used to determine the physical (short) map name.
    Conversely, when the server transmits a packet containing a map name, the
    physical map name is looked up in the translate file to find the logical
    map name for transmission.

 Files

    /etc/yp/YP_MAP_X_LATE

 See also

    ypfiles(NF)

 Notes

    cannot put comments ``#'' in the translation file