[SunHELP] Creating user (fwd)

[Larry Snyder]

ellipse <ellipse at cipherpunks.com> wrote:
> > I have so many sparc machines running Sun OS 5.6 and they are connected with
> > each other through a WAN. In case if I need to create a user I have to
> > create it on each machine. Is there anyway to do it once only on a machine
> > and to be done on the other machines automatically.
> 
> NIS/NIS+, or LDAP are your best bets.

...on a WAN?  I've brought up a NIS client behind a 128K pipe.
It worked.  Very, very, slowly.  Might be ok if there was a yp slave
server at each location.  Then the only pain would be when pushing
out the maps.
...just my .02
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