Source: nis Section: net Priority: optional Maintainer: Francesco Paolo Lovergine Standards-Version: 4.6.1 Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (=13) Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-nis-team/nis Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-nis-team/nis.git Package: nis Architecture: all Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends} Depends: ypserv, ypbind-mt, yp-tools (>= 4.2.3-3~), lsb-base, ${misc:Depends} Description: Network Information Service (NIS) This meta-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. . This package depends on daemons, client and tools components which could be also used independently to provide services for multiple hosts. - ypserv - ypbind-mt - yp-tools . Please, read and follow /usr/share/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto to setup servers and clients in the proper way.