On Thursday 24 March 2005 17:12, Brett Parker wrote: LDAP is the way to go. You can set all sorts up in it, DNS,DHCP mail and others. It is fairly easy to set up. The time is in getting the structure correct.
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 NIS is out of date, and NIS breaks too often...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,