Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 23:21:37 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Samuel Chow <cyschow@shaw.ca> Cc: "Douglas K. Rand" <rand@meridian-enviro.com>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Centralized authentication Message-ID: <20020407232137.A86378@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <20020406170014.5f47c85f.cyschow@shaw.ca>; from cyschow@shaw.ca on Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 05:00:14PM -0700 References: <874riov1et.wl@delta.meridian-enviro.com> <20020406170014.5f47c85f.cyschow@shaw.ca>
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On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 05:00:14PM -0700 I heard the voice of Samuel Chow, and lo! it spake thus: > > How about NIS? I use it at home with a total > of two machines and one users. NIS is a giant pain in the rump. I struggled with it for a while, and finally threw up my hands and just use rdist (over ssh) to distribute passwd and group files, and called it done. Haven't had a moment's trouble since. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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