Re: users & groups accross many systems

1998-06-24 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Chris Frost wrote: > I'm beginning to setup a cluster here, and most of the nodes will be > disk-less (and thus nis isn't needed), but for those that will have their Probably should use it anyway. It keeps your password files organized, it is better than mounting /etc/passw

Re: users & groups accross many systems

1998-06-24 Thread Michael Jinks
Chris Frost wrote: > > Also, is nfs much faster in 2.1? This network is going to be loaded w/ nfs > stuff (seeing as how 10 computers will be disk-less), and I'll need all the > performance I can get. Hopefully someone else can be more precise about this, but at the Linux Expo there was a talk a

users & groups accross many systems

1998-06-24 Thread Chris Frost
I'm beginning to setup a cluster here, and most of the nodes will be disk-less (and thus nis isn't needed), but for those that will have their own hd, is nis the best way to have the same users on all machines? Or is there something better. Also, is nfs much faster in 2.1? This network is going t