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What is the service that allows you to house all the user accounts on one central machine? Adam Oliver aolive1@umbc.edu http://www.meyedev.com/people/aoliver.htm AOL IM: Zor_Prime09 Yahoo IM: GendoIkari69 MSN Messenger: GendoIkari69@yahoo.com
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* Adam Oliver
What is the service that allows you to house all the user accounts on one central machine?
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO/ -- Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort." -- A. P. J.
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* David List (david@davidlist.dk) [011028 11:44]: ->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? -> ->You could be thinking of NFS. NFS= Network Filesystem What you want is NIS as Mads pointed out. There are howtos on the subject and O'Reilly has an excellent book on the NFS/NIS. -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal" --AE
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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
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Adam Oliver
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Ben Rosenberg
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Cliff Sarginson
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David List
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Mads Martin Joergensen