Networking Guide
Chapter 1, Networking overview
Distributed capabilities
Distributed capabilities
You can accomplish the following tasks through distributed administration:
-
Creating, removing, retiring, or modifying NIS-distributed users
with the Account Manager (NIS must be configured on your network).
-
Distributing users' home directories with the Account Manager
(NIS and Automounter must be configured on your network).
See
Chapter 7, ``Configuring the Network Information Service (NIS)''
and
Chapter 13, ``Configuring the NFS automounter''
for more information.