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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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