From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jun 22 21:27:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA28749 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 21:27:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns2.harborcom.net (root@ns2.harborcom.net [206.158.4.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA28744 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 21:27:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from swoosh.dunn.org (swoosh.dunn.org [206.158.7.243]) by ns2.harborcom.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA06450; Sun, 23 Jun 1996 00:27:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199606230427.AAA06450@ns2.harborcom.net> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Bradley Dunn" Organization: Harbor Communications To: Kurt Schafer Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 00:22:44 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Setting up NIS/YP Reply-to: dunn@harborcom.net CC: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.31) Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk man yp is a great place to start. It is actually quite an informative overview. man 5 passwd includes a good description of how the passwd file works with NIS. _Managing NFS and NIS_, by Hal Stern is also a good read (it's an O'Reilly, got some funky porcupines or something on the cover). The section on NIS in the handbook is currently empty, but the above should provide all the info you need. On 22 Jun 96 at 23:59, Kurt Schafer wrote: > Can anybody out there help me get on track towards setting up an NIS > system with my existing FreeBSD machines ? Bradley Dunn