Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:34:56 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Erik Sabowski <airyk@sabowski.dhs.org>, "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@blinx.net> Subject: RE: Re[2]: Any way to have multiple machines share a single pass Message-ID: <XFMail.20010812213456.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <162356341331.20010812135111@buz.ch>
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On 12-Aug-2001 Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > > In short answer, yes there is. As for how to do it, I have not a > > clue. However, you might want to look up NIS, I think it does that. > > -- Jonathan > > > I'm not sure what the original poster wanted to achieve with the > sharing of /etc/passwd but for authentication, Kerberos does > something > like this, AFAIK and generally got a much better reputation than NIS. Ahh, but Kerberos is much more difficult to set up :) NIS is a piece of cake to setup for multiple FreeBSD systems (gets more complex with non-FreeBSD OS I believe). (This post is of course a front so that someone can point me to a K5 for dummies web page :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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