exactly - one of the problems.
Everyone on the NIS network can load your passwd file.
and NIS does not support shadow (blaaaaaaaaah).

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kent Borg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: Account Management


> On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 10:00:38AM -0400, Calbazana, Al wrote:
> > Let me ask this then...  There are not many users, maybe it would be
easier
> > to just replicate the permissions across servers (copy passwd and
group)?
>
> That works well, just make sure that the user IDs and group IDs match
> across the different machines.  (Look in existing user and group files
> to see what current ID numbers are.)  And don't forget shadow files.
>
> -kb
>
>
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