From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 23 17:58:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.realtime.net (mail5.realtime.net [205.238.128.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 990D514D2E for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:58:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jktheowl@bga.com) Received: from apm6-139.realtime.net ([205.238.164.139]) by -0600 ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 19:58:16 --0600 Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 20:10:19 -0500 (CDT) From: John Kenagy X-Sender: jktheowl@barnowl.roost.net To: Nick LoPresti Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS Question In-Reply-To: <001101bebdec$f4dfed00$8c7361cf@dogwood.chromatix.com> 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 On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Nick LoPresti wrote: > Here's my situation: > > 1. I would like to set up NIS on my network. > 2. I have one FreeBSD system(2.2.6) > 3. I have many other flavors of Unix on this network > 4. I would like the FreeBSD system to export it's passwd and group files to > the other machines > > How do I achieve this? Do I just run ypserv & ypbind? Any FAQ's around??? Read all the man pages starting with yp. I also found "Managing NFS and NIS by Hal Stern _very_ helpful. You have also gotten some good pointers from others, too. Finally, I put a small tutorial up, based on my own experiences starting from scratch. It is at www.realtime.net/sculpture. Just follow the FreeBSD links. > > Thanx up front! No sweat, John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message