NIS

NIS, Network Information Services, is a way to share information between computers in a local network (domain).

The original NIS could only handle a simple flat domain. NIS+ has better scalability and security. At antiperfect.org NIS is not used and with NIS+ we have no experience at all.

NIS does a broadcast to find the NIS-server for its domain, any (fake) computer reporting as such is accepted as NIS-master.

NIS is most used to share passwd, group, hosts and automount files in a domain.

 

domainname 
Show the NIS domain you are in. 
ypwhich 
Check what is the NIS server fro your domain 
ypcat <file> 
Show the information served by NIS 

 

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