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Re: adduser with shared /home



The traditional way to do this is YP (aka NIS). The network database system exports
/etc/passwd, /etc/group, etc. You have to run an NIS server (there are debian packages
for NIS) and run NIS client software on the client machines.

frameb wrote:

> Hi.  I have two machines running Slink, that share a /home filesystem
> (nfs mounted).  I can only run the adduser command from the machine that
> has /home on its disk.  How do I share a list of users between two
> machines?  What other files are changed when the adduser command is
> executed aside from the new /home/user directory?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks!
>
> Ben Frame
> frameb@wabash.edu
>
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