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From: gpalmer@webspan.net (Gary Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NFS & passwd files
Date: 29 Jan 1997 00:43:18 GMT
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In article <slrn5ep2n9.g3.zerium@pe001.persbraten.vgs.no>,
zerium@pe049.persbraten.vgs.no (Hans Petter Bieker) writes:
> NIS == ?
gpalmer@mutara:~> man -k nis
domainname(1) - set or print name of current YP/NIS domain
kadmin(8) - network utility for Kerberos database administration
kadmind(8) - network daemon for Kerberos database administration
yp(4) - description of the YP/NIS system
yp_mkdb(8) - generate the NIS databases
ypbind(8) - NIS domain binding daemon
yppasswdd(8) - NIS password database update server
yppush(8) - force propagation of updated NIS databases
ypserv(8) - NIS database server
ypxfr(8) - transfer NIS database from remote server to local host
gpalmer@mutara:~> man 4 yp
YP(4) FreeBSD Programmer's Manual YP(4)
NAME
yp - description of the YP/NIS system
NIS stands for `Network Information System' I believe, and is a Sum
Microsystems invention (it was originally called YP, but they then
found out about the trademark owned by someone else ... oops). Some
people call it `Network Insecurity System', but according to talks
I've had with the FreeBSD NIS implimentor, FreeBSD's version is pretty
secure.
Gary