Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 13:51:11 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> To: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@blinx.net> Cc: "Erik Sabowski" <airyk@sabowski.dhs.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: Any way to have multiple machines share a single passwd file? Message-ID: <162356341331.20010812135111@buz.ch> In-Reply-To: <CCEOIFDFIDIGHEEMNANCGEBMCAAA.jslivko@blinx.net> References: <CCEOIFDFIDIGHEEMNANCGEBMCAAA.jslivko@blinx.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello Jonathan, Sunday, August 12, 2001, 12:42:48 PM, you 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. Best regards, Gabriel V -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5i iQEVAwUBO3ZfpcZa2WpymlDxAQECCAgAk/ef7eaVNI0OwE57yESDyLJfGvzIhBgv IjBbSZalWtyaDBLXZVdvKesvUwO1VpS+8uSWsvb1whLh6kL4T2yZ9iQmf4vo5tlP Ziz+MjQhaNOUPkxFiHjqsc29N9pKktcKUhCW6v8t9A4ekrwB1EVplpuxebNAVcG2 tdVLSz6Rb478GBTITCMoVxwtNH42dtvVFv1SwuXgaAaFIia+9qAUjv02sjV0+hhZ f9Dl8jwukNk5yj8megD0UBqITACuofSHkoN3+PKa6ek2wkKDHfxD0iA3xcollCR4 jp2Y1aDrZl4alFJLbaCTyxXdlSvNQK9QItp32pcm93Xt9OzOz7lNig== =uNtr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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