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diff --git a/nis/nss b/nis/nss
index aab40ab3f0..0ac6774a1f 100644
--- a/nis/nss
+++ b/nis/nss
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
# /etc/default/nss
# This file can theoretically contain a bunch of customization variables
# for Name Service Switch in the GNU C library. For now there are only
-# three variables:
+# four variables:
#
# NETID_AUTHORITATIVE
# If set to TRUE, the initgroups() function will accept the information
@@ -26,3 +26,12 @@
# might result into a network communication with the server to get
# the next entry.
#SETENT_BATCH_READ=TRUE
+#
+# ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW
+# If set to TRUE, the passwd routines in the NIS NSS module will not
+# use the passwd.adjunct.byname tables to fill in the password data
+# in the passwd structure. This is a security problem if the NIS
+# server cannot be trusted to send the passwd.adjuct table only to
+# privileged clients. Instead the passwd.adjunct.byname table is
+# used to synthesize the shadow.byname table if it does not exist.
+#ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW=TRUE