On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Steve Borho wrote:
> The old-style Unix way (tried and true, but not terribly secure):
> NIS (yellow pages) + NFS.
>
> Nowadays, you could substitute NIS for LDAP or kerberos, and you could use
> Coda instead of NFS. But at this point you would be a bit of a
> trail-blazer. Most people still use NIS & NFS.
There's also NetInfo, which started life in NeXTstep, and is now
available as part of Darwin. I'm told it's been ported to Linux.
Rob
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