-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chris Glover <chris@glovercc.clara.co.uk> wrote:
How about making your central fileserver a NIS server? Then on your local machines run ypbind. You'll need to delete the local user entries from /etc/passwd on the client machines.
This might help http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO
NIS is evil! NIS is out of date, and NIS breaks too often... hows about using LDAP instead (though, I've never got a working LDAP setup, but then I've never spent the time to do it.) In other news, the nfs-user-server and mapping works quite well, and Jenny seems to have got that all working now (from talking to her on IRC), so I'm sure she'll not worry about evil central user manglement just yet ;) Cheers, - -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCQvULEh8oWxevnjQRAoc5AJwNQQ8BNWI65oyIIfGUYrg76u7k8QCfawXR O8lZmP8lGtFU4KkDvopEAPQ= =PXd7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----