FYI: Windows/UNIX 2.0 Password Synchronization with Network Information Service (NIS+)

[Gerald Carter]

On Fri, 18 May 2001, David Collier-Brown wrote:

>   Mr. Richard Gelderman pointed out this article in the Microsoft
> support knowlege base,  which points out that MS have a
> synchronization daemon for at least Solaris.  This is something
> I've not seen discussed on these lists, so: FYI!

Yeah.  This is part of Windows Services for UNIX right?
And its a one way sync process IIRC.

>   http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q278/6/16.ASP
> see also
>   http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q269/1/30.ASP
> for a note on the one known bug with this.





Cheers, jerry

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