Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Francesco P. Lovergine" <fran...@debian.org>
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Francesco P. Lovergine" <fran...@debian.org> * Package name : ypserv Version : 4.1 Upstream Author : Thorsten Kukuk * URL : http://www.linux-nis.org/ * License : GPL, LGPL, BSD Programming Lang: C Description : Server daemon for working with Network Information System (NIS) This package provides the multi-threading version of ypserv and other tools, required to implement a NIS server for shared accounts and network names. 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. It is an old, but simple system to share information, which should be used only in relatively trusted networks, due to its intrinsic limitations for security. Note: I'm re-organizing and modernizing the old `nis` all-in-one package, following the three distinct upstream source projects. The yp-tools is already present in the main archive since a couple of years.
