From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 13 2:34:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk (dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk [194.203.69.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E461D37B408 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 02:34:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk) Received: from pfrench by mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk with local (Exim 3.31 #1) id 15WE6q-0003ur-00 for stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:34:08 +0100 To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Any way to have multiple machines share a single passwd file? In-Reply-To: Message-Id: From: Pete French Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:34:08 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The most common way to share user information between multiple computers is > to use the Network Information Services (NIS), better known as Yellow Pages Side note: I am sure that I have seen in the manual pages a reference to netinfo at a few points. Was there ever netinfo implementation for FreeBSD ? I've always found it much easier to use than NIS and it would integrate much better with the rest of my network. -pcf. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message