NIS questions (hypothetical)

[Kevin D. Clark]

[I am really far behind on my email]


Jerry Feldman writes:

> let's say I have 3 groups of users, groupa, groupb, and groupc. I want
> to allow groupa to be able to log in to some of the systems. I want
> groupb to be able to log into other systems, and groupc should be able
> to log into all of the systems.

Suggestion: configure your systems to use PAM, and configure the login
mechanisms that you are interested in to use "pam_access" for access
control.

Then in your /etc/security/access.conf, you could include a line like:

   + : @groupa : ALL

...which would allow users in NIS group "groupa" to login to this
particular machine.

Hope this helps,

--kevin
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