Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:48:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Jirsa <jeff@unixconsults.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: User Red <red@redtick.homeunix.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <list@redtick.homeunix.com>, <user@redtick.homeunix.com> Subject: Re: common Message-ID: <20020904154714.U41719-100000@boris.st.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020904224447.GB28529@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Matthew Seaman wrote: > 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. > Another alternative is pam_ldap, which is in the ports. Not as fast, not as easy, but quite flexible. - Jeff -- Jeff Jirsa jeff@unixconsults.com -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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