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From: craig@tuna.progroup.com (Craig W. Shaver)
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Subject: Re: Central User Account Managment
To: Ylee@mail.nettel.com (Yong Lee)
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 13:17:15 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=_%p=Network_Telephon%l=GUIDO-971223180406Z-8100@guido.nettel.com> from "Yong Lee" at Dec 23, 97 10:04:06 am
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> 
> How can I provide a centralized user account management on several
> servers, something like a domain service on NT world?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Yong
> 


Take a look at NIS (aka yellow pages) in the ports.


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