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Package: nis (3.17-17)

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).

Tags: System Administration: Configuration Tool, User Management, User Interface: Command Line, Daemon, Networking: Client, Server, Service, Role: Program, Security: Authentication, Purpose: Login, Synchronisation

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  • dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.7-1) [alpha, ia64]
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    also a virtual package provided by libc6.1-udeb
  • dep: libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2)
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  • dep: libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.71)
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  • dep: libgdbm3
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  • dep: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0)
    The GLib library of C routines
  • dep: libslp1
    OpenSLP libraries
  • dep: lsb-base (>= 3.0-6)
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  • dep: make
    The GNU version of the "make" utility.
  • dep: netbase
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  • dep: portmap
    RPC port mapper

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Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
alpha 223.8 kB888 kB [list of files]
amd64 218.1 kB816 kB [list of files]
arm 200.7 kB728 kB [list of files]
armel 199.0 kB732 kB [list of files]
hppa 224.7 kB804 kB [list of files]
i386 199.4 kB652 kB [list of files]
ia64 266.9 kB1080 kB [list of files]
mips 208.8 kB820 kB [list of files]
mipsel 204.3 kB820 kB [list of files]
powerpc 232.2 kB844 kB [list of files]
s390 213.0 kB792 kB [list of files]
sparc 202.7 kB768 kB [list of files]