From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 10 19:27:44 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F289837B405 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 19:27:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta04.mail.mel.aone.net.au (mta04.mail.au.uu.net [203.2.192.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A3DF43FDF for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 19:27:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au) Received: from ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au ([203.166.67.234]) by mta04.mail.mel.aone.net.au with ESMTP id <20030211032740.REFC8759.mta04.mail.mel.aone.net.au@ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au> for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:27:40 +1100 Message-Id: <5.1.1.6.2.20030211142559.00acfb50@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: pop.ozemail.com.au:rbyrnes@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1.1 Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:27:01 +1100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Rob B Subject: NIS/YP/LDAP question Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have about 5 machines at home, networked together. Usually, about three of them are in use at any given time. To save updating various bits of info when I make a change that would affect them all (adding or renaming a host, changing a user password etc.) would it be a good idea to use NIS/YP or some such service? This way, I would only have to make a change on the server and have it reflected on the various hosts. What would be an alternative to NIS in this situation? LDAP? anything else? cheers, Rob Please cc me as I'm not on the list -- Evolution doesn't take prisoners. This is random quote 512 of a collection of 1274 Distance from the centre of the brewing universe: [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian Public Key fingerprint = 6219 33BD A37B 368D 29F5 19FB 945D C4D7 1F66 D9C5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message