Description:

The Network Information Service (NIS) is a system which provides
network information (login names, passwords, home directories, group
information) to all of the machines on a network. NIS can enable users
to login on any machine on the network, as long as the machine has the
NIS client programs running and the user's password is recorded in the
NIS passwd database. NIS was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP).

This package provides the ypbind daemon. The ypbind daemon binds NIS
clients to an NIS domain. Ypbind must be running on any machines which
are running NIS client programs.

Install the ypbind package on any machines which are running NIS
client programs (included in the yp-tools package). If you need an NIS
server, you'll also need to install the ypserv package to a machine on
your network.