From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 12 4:45:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns17.u-build-it.net (ns17.u-build-it.net [66.33.65.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F094837B40B for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 04:45:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pahowes@fair-ware.com) Received: from h0020af68b314.ne.mediaone.net ([66.31.120.94] helo=beast) by ns17.u-build-it.net with smtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15Vtfq-0003Ku-00; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 07:44:54 -0400 Reply-To: From: "Paul A. Howes" To: "Erik Sabowski" , Subject: RE: Any way to have multiple machines share a single passwd file? Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 07:44:54 -0400 Message-ID: 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 IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20010812062758.W43854-100000@sabowski.dhs.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - ns17.u-build-it.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [0 0] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - fair-ware.com 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 Erik- The most common way to share user information between multiple computers is to use the Network Information Services (NIS), better known as Yellow Pages (YP). This topic is covered in the FreeBSD Handbook, in chapter 18: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/nis.html Also, the FreeBSD Diary had an article about setting up a FreeBSD box as a NIS client: http://www.freebsddiary.org/nis-client.php -- Paul A. Howes pahowes@fair-ware.com If you would like my PGP key, send a blank e-mail to pgpkey@fair-ware.com -----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