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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: quotas and logins over NFS
Date: 25 Jun 1997 09:44:55 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <33b0780e.344086@news>,
rhyde@uclink4.berkeley.edu (Trey) writes:
> How would I go about setting up a central database of users between a
> couple FreeBSD 2.2.2 machines? I'm also unsure of how to set quotas
> for those users to be enforced between their home directories on each
> machine. Could you just point me in the right direction? Please
> email me back at rhyde@uclink4.berkeley.edu.
You need to look at "NIS" and the various yp programs (yellow pages).
There's lots of man pages if you apropos yp.
I've never gone near this, so that's about the best I can do :|
I don't know that you can do any sort of "shared" quotas.
> Thanks
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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