Introduction to NIS, the Network Information Service

Posted by dcparris on Dec 14, 2006 8:07 PM EDT
NewsForge; By Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, and Trent Hein
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NIS, released by Sun in the 1980s, was the first "prime time" administrative database. It was originally called the Sun Yellow Pages, but eventually had to be renamed for legal reasons. NIS commands still begin with the letters yp, so it's hard to forget the original name. NIS was widely adopted among Unix vendors and is supported by every Linux distribution.

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