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Abstract
To simplify the management of users on your local network, it is possible to centralize network information such as user and password lists on a NIS domain (Network Information System).
With NIS, users can connect on any computer using the same login and password. Information sharing allows to distribute files such as /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow or /etc/hosts to share machine passwords or aliases. To distribute the data, you will have to configure a Ressource Sharing server like NFS (see the section called “Resource Sharing: NFS”) or Samba (see the section called “Resource Sharing: Samba”)
The configuration of the NIS server is done in two steps: the first one is the configuration of the NIS tables[1]of the server; the second one is the configuration of each client.
In order to use the Webmin module NIS Client and Server, you will have to select the category System, then the NIS Client and Server button.