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Date:      Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:35:48 -0400
From:      Damien Tougas <damien@carroll.com>
To:        Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Request for change to /etc/rc script
Message-ID:  <20000922093548.B66178@carroll.com>
In-Reply-To: <14795.23115.58191.605588@onceler.kciLink.com>; from khera@kciLink.com on Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 09:10:35AM -0400
References:  <20000921130109.Y9141@fw.wintelcom.net> <200009212009.e8LK9m113036@orthanc.ab.ca> <20000921181057.A61901@carroll.com> <14795.23115.58191.605588@onceler.kciLink.com>

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On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 09:10:35AM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
>rdist is your friend.  Here's a nice simple rdist file to send around
>the password and group files:

Imagine that you have hundreds of workstations. In order for rdist to
work properly you are making a large assumtion, namely that all of the
workstations turned on and online. If a workstation is offline for one
reason or another, you can wind up with holes in the password
distribution system.

The purpose of NIS is to get away from having to replicate files
across all workstations.

-- 
Damien Tougas
Systems Administrator
Carroll-Net, Inc.
http://www.carroll.com


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