On Wednesday 11 January 2006 13:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a term for the situation where you have one computer as the > "user account master" and every other machine recognizes all user > accounts that are specified on the master? > > I'm sure there's plenty of packages and documentation on how to do > this, but I don't know what it's called, so I don't know where to > start looking. > > Basically, I have one OpenBSD box and three gentoo boxes. I'd like > to have the same user accounts on all of them, but not have to > manually create them each time. Especially for dealing with Samba > and NFS, it's nice to have consistent accounts. > > Given the name of a couple key packages and/or web links, I think I > could figure the rest out. openldap is one way kerberos is another (don't pick this one) nis or YP is another I prefer openldap, but be warned, all of these methods are fairly non-trivial depending on your experience level.
maybe there's a way to do it with sama as well? > > Thanks! > Matt > > -- > Matt Garman > email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] mailing list
