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From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 09:13:35AM -0500, Brent wrote:
> I'm running Freebsd 4.10 , we were thinking of running NIS so that user=
=20
> accounts get propagated to other servers in our infrastructure.=20
>=20
> can it be done ?=20

Yes.  Read the ypinit(8) man page.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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