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yp-tools: NIS (or YP) client programs.

Name:	yp-tools	Vendor:	Scientific Linux
Version:	2.8	License:	GPL
Release:	7	URL:	http://www.linux-nis.org/nis/yp-tools/index.html

Summary

The Network Information Service (NIS) is a system which provides network information (login names, passwords, home directories, group information) to all of the machines on a network. NIS can enable users to login on any machine on the network, as long as the machine has the NIS client programs running and the user's password is recorded in the NIS passwd database. NIS was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP). This package's NIS implementation is based on FreeBSD's YP and is a special port for glibc 2.x and libc versions 5.4.21 and later. This package only provides the NIS client programs. In order to use the clients, you'll need to already have an NIS server running on your network. An NIS server is provided in the ypserv package. Install the yp-tools package if you need NIS client programs for machines on your network. You will also need to install the ypbind package on every machine running NIS client programs. If you need an NIS server, you'll need to install the ypserv package on one machine on the network.

Changelog

* Fri Sep 10 19:00:00 2004 Steve Dickson <SteveD{%}RedHat{*}com>

- removed the call to yp_master() since the better fix
  was to make ypserv return the error status in 
  a way that the client notices it.

* Tue Aug 31 19:00:00 2004 Steve Dickson <SteveD{%}RedHat{*}com>

- Added a yp_master() call to ypcat so the existance
  of that map can be determined and the correct error
  can be returned when it does not. (bz 124557)

* Fri Jun 18 19:00:00 2004 Alan Cox <alan{%}redhat{*}com>

- Fix buffer overflow (non security) thanks to D Binderman

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