You want to look at openldap. I am running it here on my personal network. Id's are shared among all my machines, samba accounts and html accounts. Works well. Terry On Sun, 27 May 2007 18:55:59 -0400you write: >Hi, > >Have a few linux machines running here that I'd like to have running a >directory service to synchronise login information and the like. I was >just wondering, what's the best directory service to run these days? I >had to take an intro to Unix class for school, and that mentioned NIS, >which I had looked into in the past...though I just read the ORielly >book on that and it seemed to say that NIS should only be used until >newer alternatives became stable, and the book was about 5 years old. >Being able to interoperate with windows hosts would be nice also, though >I'm not holding my breath... >Any help would be apreciated. > >-- >quit When the quit statement is read, the bc processor > is terminated, regardless of where the quit state- > ment is found. For example, "if (0 == 1) quit" > will cause bc to terminate. > -- seen in the manpage for "bc". Note the "if" statement's logic > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >