Bug#978706: ITP: ypserv -- Server 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: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Francesco P. Lovergine" <frankie@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.