From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jul 5 7: 7:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from apollo2.waverider.net.uk (apollo2.waverider.net.uk [194.207.158.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E478A37B5D5 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 07:07:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyc@waverider.net.uk) Received: from bugs (bugs.office.waverider.net.uk [212.105.191.68]) by apollo2.waverider.net.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA13726; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 15:05:02 +0100 From: "Andy Cowan" To: Cc: Subject: RE: Centralised user information Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 15:07:50 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > At my last job, we used custom script to distribute an edited > password file > to other machines when needed (at 5 minute intervals). Not a perfect > solution, but it worked well enough. > Which is what we're anticipating doing. As you say, not perfect.... > Another option, is to use NIS. See /var/yp/Makefile.dist for details. > I thought there were security concerns with NIS. If not, I'd be happy to use it. A. -- Andy Cowan Managing Director Wave Rider Internet Ltd http://www.waverider.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message