how do I serve usernames/passwords?

Asked by tadiv

At work I use a Sun Solaris system - when someone is added (a new user id/password) all the terminals on the system know the login credentials - how do I set up my home network so that I add a user to one machine, then all the others get that data from the first machine?

Thanks,
Tom

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Best Robert Di Gioia (digioiar) said :
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Hi!

Usually, larger Solaris installations use either NIS, NIS+, or LDAP to manage user ids/passwords, which will allow the functionality you describe.

NIS and LDAP are available for Ubuntu from the repositories, I'm not sure about NIS+.

Hope this helps.

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tadiv (tadiv-comcast) said :
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Robert - Thanks, I'll mark this solved and try to give these packages a try over the next few days...

Tom

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tadiv (tadiv-comcast) said :
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Thanks Robert Di Gioia, that solved my question.