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Yellow Pages commands
| Field | Computer networking |
| Went Obsolete | Mid 90'ies |
| Made Obsolete By | LDAP. |
| Knowledge Assumed | UNIX systm administration. |
| When useful | Whenever user information was changed |
The YP-tools were used to manage, and alter, information stored in Yellow Pages on Unix-based computers. You would use these tools to do things like flush the database, edit the (non existing) password file, and so on. YP was based on RPC and came hand-in-hand with NFS.
