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Package: nis (3.17-12ubuntu1)

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Please consider filing a bug or asking a question via Launchpad before contacting the maintainer directly.

Original Maintainers (usually from Debian):

  • Mark Brown
  • Miquel van Smoorenburg
  • Mark Brown

It should generally not be necessary for users to contact the original maintainer.

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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).

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Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
amd64 243.4 kB924.0 kB [list of files]
i386 225.0 kB836.0 kB [list of files]