From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 27 20:41:23 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 7F80D16A4CE for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:41:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.202.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 037D943D46 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:41:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdgrills@the-grills.com) Received: from srv1.the-grills.com (c-24-15-163-108.client.comcast.net[24.15.163.108]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with SMTP id <2005012720411401600hi645e>; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:41:14 +0000 Received: (qmail 27293 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2005 20:41:13 -0000 Received: from cs1.the-grills.com (10.10.10.93) by srv1.the-grills.com with SMTP; 27 Jan 2005 20:41:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 478 invoked by uid 1001); 27 Jan 2005 20:41:12 -0000 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:41:12 -0600 From: "Kelly D. Grills" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050127204103.GA417@the-grills.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3388.192.168.1.150.1106853833.squirrel@vipersystems.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3388.192.168.1.150.1106853833.squirrel@vipersystems.biz> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/4.11-RELEASE (i386) X-PGP-Key: mailto:kdgrills-pgpkey@the-grills.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: 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 20:41:23 -0000 --7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 02:23:53PM -0500, Jason Lieurance wrote: >=20 > I have 3 freebsd servers(4.7,4.9,5.3) and would like to have 1 set of use= r/group > accounts instead of 3. I don't know very much about NIS or LDAP which com= e up when I > researched the topic. So what is the easiest, cheapest(free), and best wa= y to > accomplish this??? >=20 NIS works well on my home network. As for easiest / best, you'll have to evaluate your particular needs. Some links to NIS docs: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nis.html yp(8) ypserv(8) --=20 Kelly D. Grills kdgrills@the-grills.com --7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: PGP key: mailto:kdgrills-pgpkey@the-grills.com iD8DBQFB+VHf7inS5LzF7HMRApXXAJwNdKNAgYOpSk7kJrlPveKG6va6XACffnkE HHByB6E6bslRaCHPvsAEv4w= =Up7h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z--