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Package: nis (3.17-6)

Clients and daemons for the Network Information Services (NIS)

The nis package allows you to use the NIS services from a NIS server or to set up your own NIS server. NIS is mostly used to let several machines in a network share the same account information (eg the password file). NIS was formerly called Yellow Pages (YP).

Other Packages Related to nis

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  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1)
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
  • dep: libdbus-1-3 (>= 0.94)
    simple interprocess messaging system
  • dep: libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.71)
    simple interprocess messaging system (GLib-based shared library)
  • dep: libgdbm3
    GNU dbm database routines (runtime version)
  • dep: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0)
    The GLib library of C routines
  • dep: libslp1
    OpenSLP libraries
  • dep: lsb-base (>= 3.0-6)
    Linux Standard Base 3.1 init script functionality
  • dep: make
    The GNU version of the "make" utility.
  • dep: netbase
    Basic TCP/IP networking system
  • dep: portmap
    The RPC portmapper

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