NIS Server Configuration

Posted by aweber on Feb 17, 2010 5:59 PM EDT
BeginLinux.com; By Mike Weber
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The Network Information Service distributes information on the network that must be shared between the Linux machines. Sun Microsystems developed a system known as Yellow Pages (YP) that eventually became known as NIS. The original YP is added to most commands for NIS ypserver, ypbind, and yppasswd. Typically NIS is used to distribute information about the users and how they authenticate to Linux.

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