From owner-freebsd-isp Mon May 4 12:18:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA03697 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Mon, 4 May 1998 12:18:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp.triax.com (smtp.triax.com [206.58.96.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA03687 for ; Mon, 4 May 1998 12:18:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joer@triax.com) Received: from joe.triax.com (joe.triax.com [206.58.97.69]) by smtp.triax.com (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5) with SMTP id MAA26634 for ; Mon, 4 May 1998 12:18:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805041918.MAA26634@smtp.triax.com> X-Sender: joer@mail.triax.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 12:18:37 -0700 To: isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: Joe Read Subject: NIS Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello Everyone! Quick question. I've just made a series of scripts that will allow employees to add users to a single FreeBSD box that we use for authentication. The script modifies the password file, runs pwd_mkdb, then puts relevant information into a customer notes file. Now I need to replicate this information accross to a few other machines, i.e., web/ftp server, mail server, etc. Will NIS allow me to do this, namely, does it have a transparent authentication layer over passwd that programs like ftpd, apache, (merit) radiusd will recognize for retrieving password, shell, and home directory information? If this is the case, does anyone have a quick-and-easy setup guide for installing/configuring/adminning NIS? How about at least an ftp site where I can grab the latest version (or is it in ports?) Thanks, Joe Read To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message