Lecture 2/28/2008 Sharing user and host information over the network

Server contains system configuration files

Cliens copy or query the configuration data from the Server

  
rdist, rsync, cfengine 

NIS  

NIS+

LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)

Commonly shared system files


/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
/etc/group
/etc/hosts
/etc/networks
/etc/services
/etc/protocols
/etc/ethers
/etc/mail/aliases
/etc/rpc
/etc/netgroup
/etc/printcap
/etc/termcap

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