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- Subject: NIS for Linux?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.115704.659@cine88.cineca.it>
- From: franco@deis20.cineca.it (Franco Venturi)
- Date: 19 Nov 92 11:57:04 +0100
- Sender: franco@deis20 (Franco Venturi)
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- Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Computer Science & Systems, Univ. of Bologna, Italy
- Keywords: network information services
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- anyone has thought of porting NIS (Network Information Services) for Linux?
- NIS (formerly called YP=Yellow Pages) is a distributed data base that allows
- Unix machines (I know Suns, HPs and IBMs, at least) to share some data bases,
- tipically /etc/passwd /etc/hosts and so on... In this way, the logins and other
- data can be shared by many machines.
- Franco Venturi
- Dept. of Electronics
- Bologna, Italy
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