best way to share user data in a computer centre?

[Jamon Camisso]

On 05/15/2010 09:07 AM, Mike Kallies wrote:
> Note that because NFS uses UID and GID, you'll need to ensure
> consistency of those values in the /etc/passwd files among the machines.

Sounds like NIS is the perfect candidate since that's what it is
designed for :) Also, since the machines on the network are largely
isolated from the outside by way of NAT, securing the directory
shouldn't be much work at all.

Jamon
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