NIS, NIS+

The Solaris 2.6 operating environment supports the network information service (NIS), the SunOS 4.x name service, and the network information services plus (NIS+), an enterprise-naming service of heterogenous distributed systems. See "NIS+ " for the nature of NIS+ support available in the Solaris 2.6 operating environment.

NIS+ provides a more detailed model for objects in the name space, improved security, and faster updates than NIS.

The NIS+ programmer interfaces are documented in section 3N of the man Pages(3): Library Routines.