From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 12 5: 5:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3D1737B407 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 05:05:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@spare0.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.114]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA17162; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:34:59 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.7 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <162356341331.20010812135111@buz.ch> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:34:56 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Gabriel Ambuehl Subject: RE: Re[2]: Any way to have multiple machines share a single pass Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Erik Sabowski , "Jonathan M. Slivko" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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