Network Information Service (NIS) is supported as an authorization provider for NFS exports.
When NIS is configured, for views that are exposed to NFS and have the Group Membership Source setting in the view policy set to Providers or Client and Providers:
NIS is used to authorize user access to file and directories.
NIS netgroups can be used to authorize NFS client hosts' access to files and directories.
See the following topics for details: