Ubuntu

Binary package “nis” in ubuntu precise

  1. Precise (12.04)
  2. nis

clients and daemons for the Network Information Service (NIS)

 This 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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