nis(5) Standards, Environments, and Macros nis(5)NAME
nis, NIS, NIS+ - network information name service
DESCRIPTION
NIS, formerly known as the Yellow Pages or YP, is the name of the net‐
work information name service in common use in networks on which Sun
and other vendors' network nodes reside. The most recent version of NIS
is version 2.
All commands and functions that use NIS version 2 are prefixed by the
letters yp as in ypmatch(1), ypcat(1), yp_match(3NSL), and
yp_first(3NSL).
The NIS+ name service is no longer shipped with the Solaris operating
system. Tools to aid the migration from NIS+ to LDAP are available in
the current Solaris release. For more information, visit
http://www.sun.com/directory/nisplus/transition.html.
SunOS 5.11 9 Dec 2009 nis(5)
