Re: Centralised User lists .. (??)

On 11/19/99 8:43 AM, Virtual Origami wrote: >There's also NetInfo, which started life in NeXTstep, and is now >available as part of Darwin. I'm told it's been ported to Linux. Darwin = open source part of Mac OS X, the future of the Mac OS , unix based (available now)

Re: Centralised User lists .. (??)

Jamie Carl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> el día Thu, 11 Nov 1999 10:17:53 +1100, escribió: >Here's an interesting one i'm hoping someone can help me with. > >I have a whole heap of Linux machines(20 to be exact) that I would >like to use some sort of centralised user list. My first question >is, "Is this

Re: Centralised User lists .. (??)

Jamie Carl wrote: > > Here's an interesting one i'm hoping someone can help me with. > > I have a whole heap of Linux machines(20 to be exact) that I would > like to use some sort of centralised user list. My first question > is, "Is this possible?". Which would lead me to my next question, >

Re: Centralised User lists .. (??)

On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 10:17:53AM +1100, Jamie Carl wrote: > Here's an interesting one i'm hoping someone can help me with. > > I have a whole heap of Linux machines(20 to be exact) that I would > like to use some sort of centralised user list. My first question > is, "Is this possible?". Whic

Centralised User lists .. (??)

Here's an interesting one i'm hoping someone can help me with. I have a whole heap of Linux machines(20 to be exact) that I would like to use some sort of centralised user list. My first question is, "Is this possible?". Which would lead me to my next question, "How do i do this?". Some back

Re: Centralised User lists .. (??)

On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Steve Borho wrote: > The old-style Unix way (tried and true, but not terribly secure): > NIS (yellow pages) + NFS. > > Nowadays, you could substitute NIS for LDAP or kerberos, and you could use > Coda instead of NFS. But at this point you would be a bit of a > trail-blazer.