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On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 08:42:39PM +0100, David List wrote:
On Sunday 28 October 2001 18:25, you wrote:
What is the service that allows you to house all the user accounts on one central machine?
To maintain a central database of user information (also host info and a variety of other things) you can use NIS (Network Information Services, formerly known as Yellow Pages, hence all programs referring to it tend to start with the letters "yp"). This means any user password only has to be changed once for any machine they are on...etc. To have a user access to a single home directory on multiple machines you will need to use NFS, Network File Systems which allows cross mounting of file systems across the network. There are HOWTO's and an O'Reilly book on these topics. -- Regards Cliff