With security concerns in mind, NIS and NFS are bad. However, NIS is simplier than it seems to (there is only one master server and many clients in the simpliest config), and it can be used in a more advanced way to improve the availability of your network, better than NFS, which introduces a single point of failure. (In this case you have, for example, to set up as many slave servers than you got NIS clients, and a client on each.) Hope I didn't tell no lies. Kalou On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Sue McGlashan wrote: Hi there Is there any way that I can move passwd and shadow from the /etc directory to another - (preferably /usr/local/etc)? The context of the question is that I am running NIS to provide logins to over 150 computers. However, none of the computers have a hard drive. The server NFS mounts what is necessary to run the lab. If I could move passwd and shadow, I would not need to run NIS. I cannot simply NFS mount /etc, as each computers needs its own /etc files, but I already NFS mount /usr to all computers. Thanks for any suggestions. Sue McGlashan email sue@cs.wits.ac.za Phone: +27 (011) 717 6191 _______________________________________________ Pam-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
