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<h1 class="title">Introduction</h1>
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NIS (formerly called Yellow Pages) allows network management of
important administrative files (e.g. the password file). For more
information refer to the NIS manpage and <a href="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO/index.html" class="link external">»
The Linux NIS(YP)/NYS/NIS+ HOWTO</a>. There is also a book called <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/nfs/noframes.html" class="link external">» Managing NFS and NIS</a> by Hal Stern.
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<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>:
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This extension has been moved to the
<a href="http://pecl.php.net/" class="link external">» PECL</a> repository and is no longer bundled with
PHP as of PHP 5.1.0.
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<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>: <span class="simpara">This extension is not
available on Windows platforms.</span></p></blockquote>
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