Yellow Pages (NIS) Configuration

Yellow Pages (now called NIS because of copyright conflicts with British Telecom) is a method of sharing configuration information between machines on a LAN. It's primarily used for sharing account information between machines, but can also be used to share host names, group information, and a small variety of other services traditionally found in `/etc`.

Your NIS domain is how you access the shared information you want to be sharing, instead of someone elses. If you're a NIS master, set the domain you want, otherwise you should use the one that your administrator has set up.

If you check This machine is a NIS server, this machine will provide NIS information to other machine on your LAN. If you are an NIS master, you will, regretably, have to manually configure `/etc/yp/Makefile` to set up the configuration information you wish to export.

If this machine is not a NIS master, you should specify the names or IP addresses of the machines that provide NIS information for your domain. If you don't specify any servers, this machine will query everyone for a NIS master to get information from -- this is a massive security breach if you don't trust everyone on your local network.