From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 25 9:59:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6A8D37B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:58:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id UAA05991; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:06:03 +0100 Message-ID: <3A706990.32540577@i-clue.de> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 18:59:44 +0100 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: christoph.sold@server.i-clue.de Organization: i-clue interactive X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Daniel Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: automating password synchronization References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Daniel schrieb: > > I have multiple Freebsd machines, Four 2.2.8 machines and a new 4.2 > stable machine that are handling multiple functions( email, file serving > with samba, web serving, etc. ) so I mave multiple password files and > group files and versions of the user name. Forgeting samba for now What is > the best way to synchronize the password files and group files so I only > have to enter a user passwd ,group once when setting up a user. And > maintain synchronicity when changing user info? Have a look at NFS and NIS. "Managing NFS and NIS" by Hal Stern, ISBN: 0-937175-75-7 explains exactly how to get it done. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message