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I'm very new to working with NIS and have been tasked with reorganizing the files. Which is the proper delimiter that should be used for a NIS file with this format:

username    server1:server2:server3

OR

username    server1,server2,server3

OR

username    server1 server2 server3

OR

Some other solution

The file is used to mark what servers the user can have access too. I just want to know what the standard format is for these files. Thanks in advance.

Brad Germain
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Exactly what is the name of the file you are talking about?

NIS is incredibly insecure, if you are supposed to be managing it I'd make my first priory how I could manage to get rid of it, you can move most NIS settings directly to most LDAP servers (there is a NIS schema in most of they by default).

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-nis.html has some good information on NIS.

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