NIS provides a central location at which you can store certain important
configuration files. Almost every NIS server is used to serve 'passwd'
among the machines on a network, and sometimes it's used for 'shadow'.
Other things you can share include 'group,' &
I am reading the NIS how-to and am a little unclear as to what NIS is
capable of. If I understand this right then I can store usernames and
password on the NIS server. Then whenever someone try's to login to a
machine (windows, UNIX, or Linux) it will poll the database for
authentication
