From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 27 19:23:57 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C63C616A4CE for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:23:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from redhat.vipersystems.biz (oh-69-68-43-130.sta.sprint-hsd.net [69.68.43.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E7C1543D3F for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:23:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jason@vipersystems.biz) Received: (qmail 72289 invoked by uid 85); 27 Jan 2005 19:23:56 -0000 Received: from jason@vipersystems.biz by redhat.vipersystems.biz by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (clamscan: 0.65. spamassassin: 2.61. Clear:. Processed in 2.120644 secs); 27 Jan 2005 19:23:56 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO vipersystems.biz) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Jan 2005 19:23:53 -0000 Received: from 192.168.1.150 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jason@vipersystems.biz) by vipersystems.biz with HTTP; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:23:53 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3388.192.168.1.150.1106853833.squirrel@vipersystems.biz> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:23:53 -0500 (EST) From: "Jason Lieurance" To: X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.12[cvs]) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Syncing 3 Freebsd servers' accounts Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:23:57 -0000 Hello, I have 3 freebsd servers(4.7,4.9,5.3) and would like to have 1 set of user/group accounts instead of 3. I don't know very much about NIS or LDAP which come up when I researched the topic. So what is the easiest, cheapest(free), and best way to accomplish this??? Thanks. -- Jason