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Many enviroments are switching from the Network Information Service (NIS) system over to the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) for sharing their network information (login names, passwords, home directories, group information) to all of the machines on the network. NIS was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP). This package implements several utilites that provide functional equivalents to utilities from the yp-tools and util-linux-ng package.

Zentyal Server is an easy to use and affordable Linux server, specially designed to meet the needs of small and medium businesses Thanks to Zentyal's Samba integration, Zentyal provides native compatibility with Microsoft Active Directory, allowing you to join Microsoft clients to a domain and manage them easily. Zentyal Server incorporates all the network services required in a small and medium business environment: * Directory & Domain Server with native compatibility with Microsoft Active Directory * Mail Server with ActiveSync and webmail * Gateway with firewall and proxy * Infrastructure Server with DNS/DHCP server, Certification Authority and Virtual Private Networks For more information and download, please access the project's home page.

...Using these databases can lead to a considerable speed-up if the files in /etc are large (e.g. on a system with a lot of accounts). The databases may also be used as a local cache for network accounts, or as a means to supplement or override UIDs, GIDs, home directories etc. provided by network accounts.