From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 28 6: 8:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wmptl.com (mail2.wmptl.com [216.221.73.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7D3337B64F for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 06:08:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.com ([10.0.0.168]) by mail2.wmptl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA22910 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 09:19:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <39098D74.5A38FEEE@wmptl.com> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 09:09:08 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican Reply-To: webmaster@wmptl.com Organization: Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Some NIS questions... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please correct me if I'm wrong, but using NIS services I can make the following example work (no?): FreeBSD Box 1: -runs as primary NIS server -exports parent dir of homedirs for all users via NFS FreeBSD Box 2/3/4/5/6/7: -authenticates users using NIS instead of /etc/passwd -has parent dir of home-dir's for users mounted over NFS Essentially what I'd like to do is maintain a single /etc/passwd file, allowing all machines to share the same user/group database; hence our radius clients, and our webhosting clients, and our mail-server's clients can all route to a single username. (Currently I keep a cronjob doing pwd_mkdb -p /etc/nfs_mounted_main_etc/master.passwd -this not a very good solution as our amount of users gets larger). Assuming I'm correct, and NIS will allow me to share my users to other machines, how do I set this up, is there a 'tutorial', or a good place to read-up on procedure(s) for doing so that anyone knows of? If NIS will not do as I'm assuming it will, I'm more than open to suggestions? Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message