Bug#978705: ITP: ypbind -- Client daemon for working with Network Information System (NIS)

["Francesco P. Lovergine" <frankie@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Francesco P. Lovergine" <frankie@debian.org>

* Package name    : ypbind
 Version         : 2.7.2
 Upstream Author : Thorsten Kukuk
* URL             : http://www.linux-nis.org/
* License         : GPL, LGPL, BSD
 Programming Lang: C
 Description     : Client daemon for working with Network Information System (NIS)

 This package provides the multi-threading version of ypbind, required
 to implement a NIS client service 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.

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Francesco P. Lovergine