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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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The Network Information Service (NIS), formerly known as Yellow Pages, is a client-server directory service protocol used to distribute system configuration files. The NIS client (
ypbind
) was used to bind a system to an NIS server and receive the distributed configuration files.