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Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 09:54:36 +0100
From: Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org>
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Subject: Re: Common user file
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On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 01:41:42PM -0500, mark.b@chillicothehospital.org wrote:
> Is there a way to have a common user file shared on several freebsd 
> computers??

Uh - do you mean /etc/passwd et al?  If so, check out NIS.  This is exactly
one of the things it's for.

Dan

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