More and more, FreeBSD machines are installed as part of a network of computers. To simplify network administration, most networks (mostly Sun-based networks) run the Network Information Service. FreeBSD machines can take full advantage of existing NIS service or provide NIS service themselves.
This document tries to answer questions about setting up NIS(YP) on your FreeBSD machine. Don't forget to read the section The RPC Portmapper.
The Linux version of the NIS-Howto is edited and maintained by
Thorsten Kukuk, <kukuk@suse.de>
The primary source of the information for the initial NIS-Howto was from:
Andrea Dell'Amico <adellam@ZIA.ms.it>
Mitchum DSouza <Mitch.DSouza@NetComm.IE>
Erwin Embsen <erwin@nioz.nl>
Peter Eriksson <peter@ifm.liu.se>
who we should thank for writing the first versions of this document.