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

[Martin Pool]

On  6 Nov 2000, Raymond Smith <raymonds at uq.net.au> wrote:

> 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?

Alternatively, you could use rsync-over-ssh to copy out the password
and group files from a central site.  This is well suited to machines
widely distributed across unreliable and insecure networks, such as oh 
I don't know, samba.org.

-- 
Martin Pool
Church of Tridge

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