[Preston] webmin and stuff

[Garry Taylor]

> BTW:
> ~ does anyone have any more details on how a large installation of linux
> boxes on a network might authenticate all the services they use again
> one box/domain/thing. I am thinking of a linux equivalent of having a
> windows domain, where logging on admits access to file shares, email, etc.
>

You can use NIS, NYS or NIS+ to do this.

This converts the /etc/passwd into a DBM system to auth against the master 
domain. The setup is really easy and allows you to mount Windows networks 
with the use of Samba or a Linux file server without problems.

This is setup is done vie Server, Slave and clients, guess who's who.

Most of the commands start with yp because it use to be called yellow pages 
but they can no longer use that name because I think it is registered to Sun.

There is very good documentation on this subject on www.tldp.org called "The 
Linux NIS(YP)/MYS/NIS+ HOWTO
by Thorsten Kukuk

Giz
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