From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 12 7:59: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from logicalhost.com (logicalhost.com [63.169.206.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 101F837B406 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 07:59:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from diesel@bsdvault.net) Received: from zen (1Cust139.tnt9.tco2.da.uu.net [63.15.231.139]) by logicalhost.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f7CExQK17911; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 10:59:26 -0400 (EDT) From: "diesel" To: "'Jonathan M. Slivko'" , "'Erik Sabowski'" , Subject: RE: Any way to have multiple machines share a single passwd file? Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 11:02:51 -0400 Message-ID: <001001c1233f$dcb5d360$0400000a@zen> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You should check out the latest article on http://bsdvault.net . It details how to set up a password push to all your hosts from a master host. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Jonathan M. Slivko Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 6:43 AM To: Erik Sabowski; freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Any way to have multiple machines share a single passwd file? In short answer, yes there is. As for how to do it, I have not a clue. However, you might want to look up NIS, I think it does that. -- Jonathan -- Jonathan M. Slivko Blinx Networks, Inc. http://www.blinx.net/ "Microsoft, is that some kind of toilet paper?" -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Erik Sabowski Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 6:31 AM To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Any way to have multiple machines share a single passwd file? I have finally gotten amd to mount my user directories correctly, which i realized that it's still a pain in the butt to have to maintain a separate /etc/passwd file for each machine. is there anyway to have all the machines use the /etc/passwd file on the machine that houses the user directories? erik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message