Re: basic NFS/NIS help requested

From: Khalid Schofield (oums0246_at_raven.linux.ox.ac.uk)
Date: 01/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:00:42 +0000
To: rb <rb@panix.com>

I'm trying to set up NIS at the moment. I've never touched NIS but have a
shed load of new and remanufactured SGI kit here. I need to get NIS
working on all my unix systems. Erm.....where do I start..... I have my
/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files on my linux server but the passwords are
MD5 encrypted. Is this compatable?

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On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, rb wrote:

> mike_sutton_nospam@yahoo.com (Michael Sutton) writes:
>
> > rb <rb@panix.com> wrote in message news:
> >> I would like to set up one (Indigo2) of a network of three computers to
> >> be a file server for the other two, and I would like to mount the
> >> users' home directories on the server.
>
> [...]
>
> > You can copy the single line from the passwd file from the client machines
> > to the server machine as long as user names/id's don't conflict. This
> > will work all the same unless you change a password on one machine it will
> > only be changed on that one machine and not the others. If you want to
> > change it "for all the machine logins" you'd need to run NIS. But that's
> > a little overkill for just 3 machines, so what you are doing will work
> > fine.
>
> Thank you Mike, just what I was looking for
>
> RB
> --
>

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