User Management Using NIS
If your FreeBSD machine is on a corporate or university network with centralized user management, it’s likely that there is a NIS (Network Information Service) server available that you can use. This service (also known as YP, or Yellow Pages) provides user and group information to any subscribed machine, allowing all UNIX users throughout the network to be registered and managed on a single central server.
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In many modern networks, LDAP and Active Directory are replacing NIS as the standard method for centralized user management. It’s possible, though not particularly straightforward, to join a FreeBSD machine to an Active Directory network using the Samba package; see http://web.irtnog.org/howtos-orig/freebsd-winbind/view ...
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