On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Alexander Goldberg wrote:
>
> In fact it will, though getting YP to work is not a trivial task.
if you'll read the faq carefully, you should not have any problem.
i have configured NIS on 5 stations + 1 server in 1 hours + 2 reading
all the documentations.
> But technically you could use one NIS master server, distributing
> passwords to your other servers. And If you YP server uses shadow
> passwords it gets even more complicated. I used it to set up dial-in
basically the current implementation that i have installed
(the one that came with RH6.0) does not support shadowed passwords.
[snip]
> On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Mike wrote:
>
> > Hi list.
> > I have a little question about NIS.
> > If i will install a NIS client on my mail server will it work ?
the best thing todo is to make the NIS server a NFS server too
that will export the homedirs of the users. that is ofcourse
there is enough hd space and horsepower on the server to be.
> > Now i'm opening an account but i really like to use one passwd database instead to
>have one on each computer (i have 4).
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mike
> >
good luck,
Ohad.
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