On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 11:47:47AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
| * Paladin (paladin@paladin.dhis.org) [020624 11:38]:
| > Is it possible to have a centralized /etc/passwd (plus all necessary
| > MD5 password files) as well as the home directories in a network?
|
| What you're looking for is NIS. Start out by reading the HOWTO:
|
| http://www.google.com/search?q=nis+howto&btnI=I
Or, better yet, use LDAP. Google will likewise provide with all the
documents you need and Free tools to migrate your existing
/etc/passwd, etc, to LDAP.
-D
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