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From: david@pyr.gatech.EDU (David Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Alternatives for Yellow Pages?
Keywords: yp  yellow pages
Message-ID: <6999@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 3 Jan 89 20:50:35 GMT
Reply-To: david@pyr.gatech.edu (David Brown)
Organization: Armstrong State College, Savannah, Ga.
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Hi.  Over the past several months, I've read several articles from
SysAdmins who said that they didn't use Yellow Pages on their networks.
I can understand this: we use yp and it's a real pain sometimes.  What
are some alternate ways to get similar effects?  (I want user x to be able
to use his same username and password on all our machines, and when he
changes it on any machine, I want that change propagated to all the others).
I don't even know if this is possible without a working yp, but any and 
all ideas are welcome!  I've got a small network of Suns (SunOS3.5) and
a VAX (4.3+NFS).

Thanks in advance,
  David Brown

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David Brown
Armstrong State College, Savannah, Georgia
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