From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 21 0:16:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (adsl-216-102-90-210.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.90.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A219737BC09 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 00:16:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hacker@bolingbroke.com) Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (fremont.bolingbroke.com [216.102.90.210]) by fremont.bolingbroke.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA06228; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 00:15:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 00:15:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Bolingbroke To: Daniel Schrock Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Mapping users to multiple systems? In-Reply-To: <006101bfdb39$a7b55180$0271a8c0@anonymousdaemon.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You're looking for NIS, Network Information Service. See the yp(4) man page for some basic information. I set it up recently at work, and I have a webpage bookmarked there that helped me get through the basic stuff. If you'd like that, drop me email and I'll look up the URL for you. Ken Bolingbroke hacker@bolingbroke.com On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Daniel Schrock wrote: > I have 2 full-time FreeBSD-4.0 systems (a gateway and a webserver) and 1 > part-time FreeBSD system (dual boots withWin2k). > > Right now i have gateway:/usr/home/ mounted on the other systems, but those > users can only actually log into the gateway. Though most don't need to log > in anywhere else, some need access to the workstation and, more importantly, > the webserver for MySQL access. > > How would i go about setting the systems up so the other users could log > into any machine without setting up separate accounts on each system? > > I'm pretty sure it can be done, but, other than nfs mounting their homes, > I'm at a loss as to how to enable logins on the other boxes. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > daniel schrock > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message