Syncing 3 Freebsd servers' accounts Question

[Kelly D. Grills]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 02:23:53PM -0500, Jason Lieurance wrote:
> 
> I have 3 freebsd servers(4.7,4.9,5.3) and would like to have 1 set of user/group
> accounts instead of 3. I don't know very much about NIS or LDAP which come up when I
> researched the topic. So what is the easiest, cheapest(free), and best way to
> accomplish this???
> 

NIS works well on my home network. As for easiest / best, you'll
have to evaluate your particular needs. Some links to NIS docs:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nis.html
yp(8)
ypserv(8)

-- 
Kelly D. Grills
kdgrills at the-grills.com
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