Separates privilege granting software from authentication software sys admin can decide what auth scheme to use for each application PAM config file format
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Network Management
Configuring a DHCP server
/etc/dhcp.conf dhcpd it is daemon name specify range of IP address specify lease duration can assign fixed addresses
NIS Network Information Service
Network Information Service. The Network Information Service (NIS) provides a simple network lookup service consisting of databases and processes. It was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP). The functionality of the two remains the same; only the name has changed. Its purpose is to provide information, that has to be known throughout the network, Full Article…