nis+, NIS+, nis — New Version of the Network Information Name Service
Description
NIS+ is a new version of the network information name service. This version differs in several significant ways from version 2, which is referred to as NIS or YP in earlier releases. Specific areas of enhancement include the ability to scale to larger networks, security, and the administration of the service.
The manual pages for NIS+ are divided into three basic categories. Section 1 manual pages describe the user commands that are most often executed from a shell script or directly from the command line. Section 1M manual pages describe commands that can be used by the network administrator to administer the service itself. Section 3N manual pages describe the ...
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