From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 12 3:42:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nyc.rr.com (nycsmtp2fb.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.99.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8854A37B40C for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 03:42:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jslivko@blinx.net) Received: from hercules ([24.168.44.136]) by nyc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.357.35); Sun, 12 Aug 2001 06:42:09 -0400 From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" To: "Erik Sabowski" , Subject: RE: Any way to have multiple machines share a single passwd file? Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 06:42:48 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20010812062758.W43854-100000@sabowski.dhs.org> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 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 -- Jonathan M. Slivko Blinx Networks, Inc. http://www.blinx.net/ "Microsoft, is that some kind of toilet paper?" -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Erik Sabowski Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 6:31 AM To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Any way to have multiple machines share a single passwd file? I have finally gotten amd to mount my user directories correctly, which i realized that it's still a pain in the butt to have to maintain a separate /etc/passwd file for each machine. is there anyway to have all the machines use the /etc/passwd file on the machine that houses the user directories? erik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message