Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:23:36 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Ray Seals <rseals@vdsi.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User Accounts across multiple machines Message-ID: <20040722142336.70c55f16.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <1090519611.584.1.camel@mgl.magellanhealth.com> References: <1090519611.584.1.camel@mgl.magellanhealth.com>
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Ray Seals <rseals@vdsi.net> wrote: > I have 15 FreeBSD machines on my network (soon to be around 30) and want > to synch all the machines userid and passwords. Is NIS still the > primary way to do this or is there a better solution? As far as I understand it, yes. Although Kerberos seems to be a practical alternative. With 5.x, there is more support for pam, thus opening up your choices to things like LDAP. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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