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Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 23:44:47 +0100
From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To: User Red <red@redtick.homeunix.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, list@redtick.homeunix.com,
	user@redtick.homeunix.com
Subject: Re: common
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On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 01:12:35PM -0500, User Red wrote:

> Is there a way to have several freebsd computers share a common user
> list to control logins?

There are several possibilities for doing that, but NIS (formerly
known as YP "yellow pages") is probably the easiest and quickest thing
for you to set up.  See
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/nis.html for
instructions.  Also the yp(8) and ypinit(8) man pages are quite
useful.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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