User Accounts across multiple machines

2004-07-22 Thread Ray Seals
I have 15 FreeBSD machines on my network (soon to be around 30) and want to synch all the machines userid and passwords. Is NIS still the primary way to do this or is there a better solution? -- Ray Seals [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: User Accounts across multiple machines

2004-07-22 Thread Bill Moran
Ray Seals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 15 FreeBSD machines on my network (soon to be around 30) and want to synch all the machines userid and passwords. Is NIS still the primary way to do this or is there a better solution? As far as I understand it, yes. Although Kerberos seems to be a

Re: User Accounts across multiple machines

2004-07-22 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 22 July 2004 13:23, Bill Moran wrote: Ray Seals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 15 FreeBSD machines on my network (soon to be around 30) and want to synch all the machines userid and passwords. Is NIS still the primary way to do this or is there a better solution? As far as

Re: User Accounts across multiple machines

2004-07-22 Thread Bill Moran
Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 22 July 2004 13:23, Bill Moran wrote: Ray Seals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 15 FreeBSD machines on my network (soon to be around 30) and want to synch all the machines userid and passwords. Is NIS still the primary way to do

Re: User Accounts across multiple machines

2004-07-22 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 02:46:57PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Were you able to make this work well with 4.x machines? It's been a while since I tried, but I had problems with nss turning UIDs back into names. This would still be a problem, because there is no support for nss_ldap in FreeBSD

Re: User Accounts across multiple machines

2004-07-22 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 02:23:36PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Ray Seals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 15 FreeBSD machines on my network (soon to be around 30) and want to synch all the machines userid and passwords. Is NIS still the primary way to do this or is there a better solution?