From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 4 15:48:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BF6737B401 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:48:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from boris.st.hmc.edu (boris.ST.HMC.Edu [134.173.63.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0875043E4A for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:48:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff@unixconsults.com) Received: from boris.st.hmc.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by boris.st.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g84Mm9gS041724; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:48:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jeff@localhost) by boris.st.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g84Mm9ah041721; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:48:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff@unixconsults.com) X-Authentication-Warning: boris.st.hmc.edu: jeff owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:48:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Jirsa X-X-Sender: jeff@boris.st.hmc.edu To: Matthew Seaman Cc: User Red , , , Subject: Re: common In-Reply-To: <20020904224447.GB28529@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Message-ID: <20020904154714.U41719-100000@boris.st.hmc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter on boris.st.hmc.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 01:12:35PM -0500, User Red wrote: > > > Is there a way to have several freebsd computers share a common user > > list to control logins? > > There are several possibilities for doing that, but NIS (formerly > known as YP "yellow pages") is probably the easiest and quickest thing > for you to set up. See > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/nis.html for > instructions. Also the yp(8) and ypinit(8) man pages are quite > useful. > Another alternative is pam_ldap, which is in the ports. Not as fast, not as easy, but quite flexible. - Jeff -- Jeff Jirsa jeff@unixconsults.com -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message