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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!dircon!usenet From: thomas@dircon.co.uk (Thomas Yao) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: *** Is there anybody using NIS under FreeBSD 2.1.5? Date: 13 Nov 1996 05:05:03 GMT Organization: Direct Connection Lines: 14 Message-ID: <56bktv$4bb@newsgate.dircon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: gw4-114.pool.dircon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.8 (beta 2) I want two of my FreeBSD machines have the same password datatbase, so when I create one new user account I have to update another one as well. I don't mind to do that by myself if there are just few users, but we may have more than a thousand users! I guess we should try the yp (NIS) but after I read the man pages I think the yp on FreeBSD is incomplete. It says the FreeBSD doesn't support ypupdated, getservent, and getprotoent. I don't know how critical those functions are, so I was wondering if the yp on FreeBSD could solve my problem. Can someone tell me where to find something to read? Or can someone give me some tips? Thanks in advance. Thomas