yp-tools is an implementation of the NIS client tools for Linux and should work with every Linux C Library. This implementation only provides NIS client tools. You must already have a ypbind daemon running on the same host, and a NIS server running somewhere in the net.
| Tags | Networking |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases


No changes have been submitted for this release.


Release Notes: This release fixes a bug in yppasswd which prevented the user from correctly authenticating.


Release Notes: This release has been updated to use the current toolchain. The yptest program was added. An option was added to ypcat to query a specified server. cracklib support for yppasswd was fixed.


Release Notes: This release contains some fixes for locale support, detecting of passwd.adjunct maps, and compile fixes for IA64.


Release Notes: Fixed compiler warnings, fixed German translation and fixed minor Makefile bugs.