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What is/was Yellow Pages? Never heard the term used in this context

• athrun 5y ago
  You can think of it as a precursor to LDAP. It was a way to provide centralized access to User/Groups/Password and hostnames information over the network. YP was a staple of most UNIX deployments for some time, before being replaced by LDAP and DNS. You'll find some historical context here [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Information_Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Information_Service
  • 2fast4you 5y ago
    Thanks!
• mjg59 5y ago
  Sibling comment links to the relevant Wikipedia page, but most people who've dealt with YP probably know it as NIS (turns out using a trademarked term wasn't ideal). https://lwn.net/Articles/874174/ https://lwn.net/Articles/874174/ is a discussion of the current state of the world - Fedora is considering removing support for it in a future release, but it's otherwise still hanging around in Linux distributions.
  • cesarb 5y ago
    > https://lwn.net/Articles/874174/ https://lwn.net/Articles/874174/ is a discussion of the current state of the world - Fedora is considering removing support for it in a future release Subscriber link: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/874174/693a5853d33f4b45/ https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/874174/693a5853d33f4b45/
  • tytso 5y ago
    OK, suddenly I feel old. When I knew people using YP, we all knew that it was the rightful name, and NIS was the name slapped on it later due to trademark concerns...
    • mwcampbell 5y ago
      If I'm not mistaken, Sun has made that mistake more than once. Bryan Cantrill has often pointed out that the original name of Solaris zones was Kevlar.
      • bcantrill 5y ago
        And don't forget Happy Meal Ethernet!