Re: [seul-edu] Linux computer lab

[Greg <gfischer4@mediaone.net>]

Thanks for the quick response.  Could you point me in the direction of some 
documentation on that subject? I see nothing in the HOWTOs or Guides on 
linuxdoc.org.  Thanks again.

--Greg

On Tuesday 24 April 2001 17:31, you wrote:
>  NIS is the thing to go.  It does not support certain type of encryption
> (md5, etc.), but it does support other type of encryption, cypt for
> instance.  The way it works is that nis has a central password file, and
> push the file to every machine. When user login in to a machine, the
> password is not sent over the network, but is compared with the local copy.
> So all NIS does is to keep everything the same across ervery machine.
>
> J.
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