From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 8 7:23:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D28DC14FC0 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 07:23:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id KAA22944; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 10:32:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199903081532.KAA22944@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Synchronising user accounts between to machines... In-Reply-To: <913B8C252194D2119BD500805F318178970587@za12nt02.mweb.com> from Langa Kentane at "Mar 8, 99 02:05:24 pm" To: LKentane@mweb.com (Langa Kentane) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 10:32:41 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Langa Kentane wrote, > I have two machines... one I use for mail and the other one I use for games > and stuff (ftp).... > My friends ftp to the games machine to download and upload a lot of stuff. > > I create a lot of user accounts daily and a couple of the users need change > the passwd's quite often and I have disabled telnet access to both machines. > How do I synchronise user accounts on both machines, say have an update > every hour or so. > > Can somebody point me to the howto's? > > One thing that I forgot to mention is that one machine is a linux machine > and the other FreeBSD. I will be adding another machine to the lot (Solaris > 7). I am a newbie to Unix so please be forgiving. Provided the environment is secure enough and some other factors, this sounds like a very approproate situation for NIS. The basic idea behind NIS is to maintain a single set of user information over a numbre of machines, which sounds like what you would like to do. John Kenagy's NIS beginner's page is a reasonable place to start, http://www.realtime.net/sculpture/nis-startup.html -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message