Iain Morris wrote: > > And NIS servers belong in a museum! :-) Although NIS has a number of issues against it - it still has some pretty good things going for it. If you are on a private network and security is not a high priority, then NIS is something that can be easily set up. Some of the nice things about NIS on Linux are: It is fairly simple to set up Comes with built in server redundancy and failover Has simple server load balancing built in Very lightweight on the client James Pearson