[ale] another NIS question

[byron at cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff)]

> 
> We have four workstations all cross-mounted to one another.
> Right now we are not running NIS so if you change your 
> password you have to do it manually on all four machines.
> We have the users divided among the workstations so I'm 
> wondering if we can run NIS and have each machine be 
> client and server with each machine containing the users
> on its local drive.  Can I do this and is it a good idea?

Yes and yes.

BAJ