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From: stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil (Ron Stanonik)
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Subject: Re: Organisation-wide uids
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Date: 3 May 89 09:02:13 GMT
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I'd like to see yp domains enumerated and integrated with uids (and gids)
to identify users.  Then each group could administrate its own users,
machines, printers, etc within their own yp domain.  References between
domains could include the domain name.  For example, smith in eecs could
have an account on a physics machine by putting +smith.eecs in the physics
passwd file.  Printers across domains could be referred to by including
the domain name; eg, lp0.eecs.  (Symbolics allows something like this in
it's namespace concept.)

The yp commands all seem to take the yp domain as an argument, but nothing
(user, printer, hosts, etc references) seems to use that flexibility.
Yet?


Ron Stanonik
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