Art Pina writes:
>Suppose a group is running AFS and needs NIS-like capability.
>Does anyone have suggestions?
>
>The group is running authenticated logins, but would like to log on to any
>machine in the organization into their own AFS Home directory. - art
One option is to run NIS. Simply place a single, non "*" character in
the passwd field of your yp passwd map. At this site, one large
organization and a few small ones do exactly that.
For changing passwords, I guess that if you don't want to write your
own fancy programs you can use kpasswd for password changes and use
yppasswd for the "chfn" and "chsh" functions. Hmm.
Brian
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academic department or computing service at Rensselaer.
Sample yp passwd map entry from the Engineering Computing Services
database:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] //afs (9) ypmatch fitzgb passwd
fitzgb:X:15636:4000:Brian Patrick Fitzgerald:/home/36/fitzgb:/usr/local/bin/session
/home is just a symbolic link to /afs/rpi.edu/home
