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Bug#968619: ITP: libnss-nis -- NSS module for using NIS as a naming service



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-glibc@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : libnss-nis
  Version         : 3.1
  Upstream Author : Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@thkukuk.de> 
* URL             : https://github.com/thkukuk/libnss_nis
* License         : LGPL-2.1+
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : NSS module for using NIS as a naming service

This package provides a Name Service Switch that allows your NIS server
act as a name service. This means providing user account information,
group id's, host information, aliases, netgroups, and basically anything
else that you would normally get from /etc flat files.

This module was formerly part of glibc, but is now standalone to be able
to link against TI-RPC for IPv6 support.

glibc 2.32 removed support for NIS, and with it the libnss_nis.so.2 NSS
module. This package will provide this feature instead.


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