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Date:      Sun, 12 Aug 2001 13:51:11 +0200
From:      Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>
To:        "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@blinx.net>
Cc:        "Erik Sabowski" <airyk@sabowski.dhs.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re[2]: Any way to have multiple machines share a single passwd file?
Message-ID:  <162356341331.20010812135111@buz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <CCEOIFDFIDIGHEEMNANCGEBMCAAA.jslivko@blinx.net>
References:  <CCEOIFDFIDIGHEEMNANCGEBMCAAA.jslivko@blinx.net>

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Hello Jonathan,

Sunday, August 12, 2001, 12:42:48 PM, you wrote:

> 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  


I'm not sure what the original poster wanted to achieve with the
sharing of /etc/passwd but for authentication, Kerberos does
something
like this, AFAIK and generally got a much better reputation than NIS.


Best regards,
 Gabriel
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