From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 12 4:48:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gamma.root-servers.ch (gamma.root-servers.ch [195.49.62.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 97F7B37B40B for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 04:48:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 20529 invoked from network); 12 Aug 2001 11:48:34 -0000 Received: from dclient217-162-128-224.hispeed.ch (HELO athlon550) (217.162.128.224) by 0 with SMTP; 12 Aug 2001 11:48:34 -0000 Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 13:51:11 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53bis) Educational Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <162356341331.20010812135111@buz.ch> To: "Jonathan M. Slivko" Cc: "Erik Sabowski" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: Any way to have multiple machines share a single passwd file? In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello Jonathan, Sunday, August 12, 2001, 12:42:48 PM, you wrote: > In short answer, yes there is. As for how to do it, I have not a > clue. However, you might want to look up NIS, I think it does that. > -- Jonathan I'm not sure what the original poster wanted to achieve with the sharing of /etc/passwd but for authentication, Kerberos does something like this, AFAIK and generally got a much better reputation than NIS. Best regards, Gabriel V -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5i iQEVAwUBO3ZfpcZa2WpymlDxAQECCAgAk/ef7eaVNI0OwE57yESDyLJfGvzIhBgv IjBbSZalWtyaDBLXZVdvKesvUwO1VpS+8uSWsvb1whLh6kL4T2yZ9iQmf4vo5tlP Ziz+MjQhaNOUPkxFiHjqsc29N9pKktcKUhCW6v8t9A4ekrwB1EVplpuxebNAVcG2 tdVLSz6Rb478GBTITCMoVxwtNH42dtvVFv1SwuXgaAaFIia+9qAUjv02sjV0+hhZ f9Dl8jwukNk5yj8megD0UBqITACuofSHkoN3+PKa6ek2wkKDHfxD0iA3xcollCR4 jp2Y1aDrZl4alFJLbaCTyxXdlSvNQK9QItp32pcm93Xt9OzOz7lNig== =uNtr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message