Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 09:09:08 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Some NIS questions... Message-ID: <39098D74.5A38FEEE@wmptl.com>
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Please correct me if I'm wrong, but using NIS services I can make the following example work (no?): FreeBSD Box 1: -runs as primary NIS server -exports parent dir of homedirs for all users via NFS FreeBSD Box 2/3/4/5/6/7: -authenticates users using NIS instead of /etc/passwd -has parent dir of home-dir's for users mounted over NFS Essentially what I'd like to do is maintain a single /etc/passwd file, allowing all machines to share the same user/group database; hence our radius clients, and our webhosting clients, and our mail-server's clients can all route to a single username. (Currently I keep a cronjob doing pwd_mkdb -p /etc/nfs_mounted_main_etc/master.passwd -this not a very good solution as our amount of users gets larger). Assuming I'm correct, and NIS will allow me to share my users to other machines, how do I set this up, is there a 'tutorial', or a good place to read-up on procedure(s) for doing so that anyone knows of? If NIS will not do as I'm assuming it will, I'm more than open to suggestions? Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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