Overview #

Directory-Based Information Services (DBIS, pronounced "dee-biss") is a replacement for the Network Information Service (NIS) and RFC 2307. Published as a series of Internet Drafts, DBIS seeks to modernise the way that users, groups and network services are defined and managed on UNIX and Linux systems.

The Internet Drafts are currently available on the IETF website:

• DBIS Mapping Objects: draft-bannister-dbis-mapping
• DBIS Netgroups and Netservices: draft-bannister-dbis-netgroup
• DBIS Users and Groups: draft-bannister-dbis-passwd
• DBIS Hosts, Networks and Services: draft-bannister-dbis-hosts
• DBIS Devices: draft-bannister-dbis-devices
• DBIS Automounter: draft-bannister-dbis-automounter
• DBIS Custom Maps: draft-bannister-dbis-custom

Other articles about DBIS:

• DBIS: Distribution by design
• DBIS: Distributed management
• DBIS: Introducing Netservices

December 2014: the DBIS Reference Implementation is complete! Available for download on SourceForge.

More Information #

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• MigratingFromNISToLDAP

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• [#1] - Introducing DBIS - based on 2014-12-15