This meta-package provides tools for setting up and maintaining a NIS domain.
NIS, originally known as Yellow Pages (YP), is mostly used to let
several machines in a network share the same account information, such
as the password file.
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This package depends on daemons, client and tools components which could
be also used independently to provide services for multiple hosts.
- ypserv
- ypbind-mt
- yp-tools
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Please, read and follow /usr/share/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto to setup
servers and clients in the proper way.
Installed Size: 25.6 kB
Architectures: all