Chapter 22. NIS: Network Information Service

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How NIS Works

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Setting Up an NIS Client

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yppasswd: Changes NIS Passwords

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Setting Up an NIS Server

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yppasswdd: The NIS Password Update Daemon

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NIS (Network Information Service) simplifies the maintenance of common administrative files by keeping them in a central database and having clients contact the database server to retrieve information from the database. Developed by Sun Microsystems, NIS is an example of the client/server paradigm.

Just as DNS addresses the problem of keeping multiple copies of /etc/hosts files up-to-date, so NIS deals with the issue of keeping system-independent configuration files (such as /etc/passwd) current. Most networks ...

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