Using NIS+ APIs

The NIS+ application programmer's interface (API) functions can be called by an application to access and modify NIS+ objects. The NIS+ API functions that fall into the following categories:

• Transaction log functions (nis_admin)
• Database access functions (nis_db)
• Error message display functions (nis_error)
• Group manipulation functions (nis_groups)
• Local name functions (nis_local_names)
• Miscellaneous functions (nis_misc)
• Object manipulation functions (nis_names)
• Application subroutine functions (nis_subr)
• Table access functions (nis_tables)