User Accounts across multiple machines

[Bill Moran]

Ray Seals <rseals at vdsi.net> 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 practical
alternative.  With 5.x, there is more support for pam, thus opening up
your choices to things like LDAP.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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