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Package: nis (3.17-30)

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.

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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Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
amd64 216.4 kB792 kB [list of files]
armel 197.7 kB720 kB [list of files]
hppa 223.2 kB784 kB [list of files]
i386 200.4 kB736 kB [list of files]
ia64 262.3 kB1056 kB [list of files]
mips 202.2 kB796 kB [list of files]
mipsel 199.8 kB796 kB [list of files]
powerpc 225.3 kB820 kB [list of files]
s390 208.7 kB764 kB [list of files]
sparc 204.0 kB752 kB [list of files]