On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Alexander Goldberg wrote:
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> 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 technica
Mike wrote:
> If i will install a NIS client on my mail server will it work ?
Work as what ?
If you ask if it will hard your mail server. probably not.
So the question is: What do you want it to do ? Tell us this
and we'll help you.
--ury
In fact it will, though getting YP to work is not a trivial task.
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
server, and it took me a while
