Source: nis Section: net Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian QA Group Standards-Version: 3.9.5 Build-Depends: libsystemd-dev, dh-autoreconf, libgdbm-dev, gcc (>= 2.95), gettext, po-debconf, file, pkg-config Package: nis Architecture: any Pre-Depends: debconf (>= 0.5.00) | debconf-2.0 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, netbase, make, portmap, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), hostname (>= 2.98) Conflicts: netstd (<=1.26) Suggests: nscd Description: clients and daemons for the Network Information Service (NIS) This package provides tools for setting up and maintaining a NIS domain. NIS, originally known as Yellow Pages (YP), is mostly used to let several machines in a network share the same account information, such as the password file.