Intend to package NIS+ Utilities

[Rainer Dorsch <rainer@rainer.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>]

A more detailed description of NIS+ support can be found at 
http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/linux/

Any support by an experienced developer would be appreciated.

--Rainer.



NIS+ Utilities 

The current version of nis-utils: 1.0 

The NIS+ Utilities are a collection of NIS+ administration and testing tools. 
They contain: nisaddcred,
nisaddent, niscat, nischgrp, nischmod, nischown, nischttl, nisdefaults, 
niserror, nisgrep, nisgrpadm,
nisinit, nislog, nisls nismatch, nismkdir, nispath, nisping, nisrm, nisrmdir, 
nisshowcache, nisstat,
nistbladm, nistest and nisupdkeys.
With this, Linux could act as full NIS+ client. The shadow support from 
nispasswd is missing, but the
other parts works. There are some first tries to write a NIS+ Server, but the 
current sources are in
pre-alpha stage and doesn't work. 

      nis-utils-1.0.tar.gz. 


Other useful packages:

      autofs: 
      The Linux automounter autofs contains NIS+ support since version 3.1.0. 
      You could find it under ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/ 

      NIS+ Administration tool:
      Ralf Lehmann has written a NIS+ Administration tool ( 
nistool-0.1alpha.tar.gz ). You need perl-tk
      for it.