Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 10:32:41 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: LKentane@mweb.com (Langa Kentane) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: Synchronising user accounts between to machines... Message-ID: <199903081532.KAA22944@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <913B8C252194D2119BD500805F318178970587@za12nt02.mweb.com> from Langa Kentane at "Mar 8, 99 02:05:24 pm"
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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
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