Re: About Centralizing Passwords
You can configure your machines to consult local files first, then NIS by
editing the file /etc/nsswitch.conf.
Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary
On 8 Jun 2000, M. Tavasti wrote:
> Date: 08 Jun 2000 08:22:22 +0300
> From: M. Tavasti <tavasti@iki.fi>
> To: benjamin@wayport.net
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: About Centralizing Passwords
>
> Benjamin Hudgens <benjamin@wayport.net> writes:
>
> > Is there a client/server protocol that supports centralizing password
> > AND session information other than NIS. If I'm not mistaken, NIS
> > requires that you STILL edit the password file and specify user dirs..
> > etc. Perhaps I'm reading this wrong..
>
> Yes, you are reading wrong. With NIS you get full passwd,group, alias,
> ... entries, just like they were local.
>
> I consider safety beeing only problem in NIS. And all machines jammed
> totally if NIS server is down, even logging in as root (local
> account)...
>
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