From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 22 18:23:38 2004 Return-Path: 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 8203D16A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 18:23:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FA8F43D41 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 18:23:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from working.potentialtech.com (pa-plum-cmts1e-68-68-113-64.pittpa.adelphia.net [68.68.113.64]) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75E2F69A3F; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:23:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:23:36 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: Ray Seals 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> Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User Accounts across multiple machines X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 18:23:38 -0000 Ray Seals 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