[wplug] nis replacement

[Michael P. O Connor]

for passwords, why not, not distrubute the password files, and just have
a central login server, kerbros comes to mind.  and for shard files, I
hear alot of talk about XFS could that work for you?

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> 
> Someone recently posted a question about nis and a couple people replied
> with negative thouhts on nis. So, I was wondering what people would
suggest
> as a replacement to distribute other files as well as password files to
> clients?
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