From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 30 16:53:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from priv-edtnes11-hme0.telusplanet.net (edtnes11.telus.net [199.185.220.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5024937BDAF for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 16:53:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james@aspert.com) Received: from james ([209.53.42.103]) by priv-edtnes11-hme0.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.11 201-229-116-111) with SMTP id <20000630235338.IASY625.priv-edtnes11-hme0.telusplanet.net@james>; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 17:53:38 -0600 Message-ID: <005a01bfe2ee$0fe457e0$672a35d1@aspert.com> From: "J Peltier" To: "Ken Bolingbroke" , "steinyv" Cc: References: Subject: Re: NIS Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 16:51:07 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stupid question I guess. Than NIS is platform independant IE Windows users can be authenticated via an NIS server?? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Bolingbroke" To: "steinyv" Cc: Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 4:23 PM Subject: Re: NIS > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message