Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 16:23:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Bolingbroke <hacker@bolingbroke.com> To: steinyv <steinyv@skyweb.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006301618290.84094-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20000630185842.009b1ac0@>
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On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, steinyv wrote: > Hi all. Im a newbie and Im just getting to understand what NFS is all > about. I read up on NIS and I have a vague idea of what it does. Could > someone give like some real world examples of where NIS is used so that I > can get a clearer picture in my head, so that I could figure out if I could > use this function or not. Example of where I'm using it. I maintain a lab filled with a variety of platforms, and I maintain access for several teams of employees who need to access and bang on these machines. I frequently reinstall platforms when they get beat up too much, or after someone's changed things around too much. NIS allows me to maintain a single central server with all of that user login information. Then I need only configure each lab machine to use NIS from the server, and all the users immediately have their login propogated to every machine in the lab. They change their password in once place. I add/delete users in one place, etc. And I don't have to deal with each platform's individual quirks in adding and maintaining users so much... Ken Bolingbroke hacker@bolingbroke.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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