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Name Service Switch (NSS) module using NIS
This package contains the NSS NIS plugin for glibc. This code was formerly part of glibc, but is now standalone to be able to link against TI-RPC for IPv6 support. The nss_nis Name Service Switch module uses the Network Information System (NIS) to obtain user, group, host name, and other data.