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"SLC6X: system environment/daemons: ypserv

ypserv - The NIS (Network Information Service) server

Website: http://www.linux-nis.org/nis/ypserv/index.html
License: GPLv2
Vendor: Scientific Linux CERN, https://cern.ch/linux
Description:
The Network Information Service (NIS) is a system that provides
network information (login names, passwords, home directories, group
information) to all of the machines on a network. NIS can allow users
to log in 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 provides the NIS server, which will need to be running on
your network. NIS clients do not need to be running the server.

Install ypserv if you need an NIS server for your network. You also
need to install the yp-tools and ypbind packages on any NIS client
machines.

Packages

ypserv-2.19-32.el6_10.i686 [129 KiB] Changelog by Petr Kubat (2018-09-03):
- Do not overwrite user password in passwd.adjunct when changing shell
- Resolves: #1614090
ypserv-2.19-31.el6.i686 [129 KiB] Changelog by Matej Muzila (2016-01-15):
- Return failure if yppassw cannot write to /etc/shadow or /etc/passwd.adjunct
  because of wrong SELinux context
- Move domainname check from ypserv to yppasswdd
- Resolves: #747334, #456249
ypserv-2.19-26.el6_4.2.i686 [128 KiB] Changelog by Honza Horak (2013-10-01):
- Run resetpriorities only when ypbind is broken
  Resolves: #1011507
ypserv-2.19-26.el6.i686 [128 KiB] Changelog by Honza Horak (2012-11-08):
- Add missing breaks in switch
  Resolves: #874557
ypserv-2.19-22.el6.i686 [127 KiB] Changelog by Honza Horak (2011-08-31):
- hide passwords in syslog when using external script
  to update user's data using yppasswdd
  Resolves: #734494

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