Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 07:44:54 -0400 From: "Paul A. Howes" <pahowes@fair-ware.com> To: "Erik Sabowski" <airyk@sabowski.dhs.org>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Any way to have multiple machines share a single passwd file? Message-ID: <ABENJKDFOLCKBPLGACFDEEBHDBAA.pahowes@fair-ware.com> In-Reply-To: <20010812062758.W43854-100000@sabowski.dhs.org>
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Erik- The most common way to share user information between multiple computers is to use the Network Information Services (NIS), better known as Yellow Pages (YP). This topic is covered in the FreeBSD Handbook, in chapter 18: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/nis.html Also, the FreeBSD Diary had an article about setting up a FreeBSD box as a NIS client: http://www.freebsddiary.org/nis-client.php -- Paul A. Howes pahowes@fair-ware.com If you would like my PGP key, send a blank e-mail to pgpkey@fair-ware.com -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Erik Sabowski Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 6:31 AM To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Any way to have multiple machines share a single passwd file? I have finally gotten amd to mount my user directories correctly, which i realized that it's still a pain in the butt to have to maintain a separate /etc/passwd file for each machine. is there anyway to have all the machines use the /etc/passwd file on the machine that houses the user directories? erik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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