From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 24 20:16:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA22836 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 20:16:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA22831 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 20:16:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA11207; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 15:12:39 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 15:12:39 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Mike Tancsa cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Password Synchronization In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980824222553.00c44d10@sentex.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > As people add more services on different computers, I was wondering what > people are using to keep the master password file/authentication in sync ? > Also, are there better alternatives to rdist for file synchronization that > people are using. Pointers/references welcome. NIS? ie: yp, ypserv et al. Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Don't forget the most important rule to live by.. Never believe anything you read on the USENET" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message