From owner-freebsd-security Sun Apr 7 21:21:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from draco.over-yonder.net (draco.over-yonder.net [198.78.58.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BE3137B419 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 21:21:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by draco.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id DCDF7FC4; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 23:21:37 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 23:21:37 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Samuel Chow Cc: "Douglas K. Rand" , freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Centralized authentication Message-ID: <20020407232137.A86378@over-yonder.net> References: <874riov1et.wl@delta.meridian-enviro.com> <20020406170014.5f47c85f.cyschow@shaw.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5-fullermd.1i In-Reply-To: <20020406170014.5f47c85f.cyschow@shaw.ca>; from cyschow@shaw.ca on Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 05:00:14PM -0700 X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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