[H-GEN] Central Account Management / NIS/ YP/ ....

[Raymond Smith]

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Hi all,

My workplace has a number of machines: dual booting RH/W2K workstations,
HP-UX workstation, fileserver/gateway/router/security hazard (RH), and a
dual processor testing/central grunt server (RH/W2K). All my RH machines
are 6.2

We need some sort of centralised administration of users and groups and so
forth so things like NFS work well. Now the only way I know to do this is
withNIS (or YP) but are there alternatives? Are there very nasty problems
I should no about it? Could anyone recommended essential reading before I
undertake this project?

Cheers,

Raymond

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raymond at humbug.org.au                     All that we see, or seem,
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