Suggestion for Network Auth. + Networked /home directory

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Jul 20 17:51:06 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 11:41 -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> I have about 3 computers in my home network running FC 3 / 4 and RHEL (maybe 
> more in the future). I am planning to have somekind of a central 
> authentication in a server, so that I don't have to manage users in all of 
> the computer separately (mainly would be for family members). I also want 
> the /home directory for each users NFS mounted from this server. I plan to 
> also have a public share directory from this server which is mounted in each 
> computer (ie. for storing pictures, music, etc). 
> 
> What is the easiest / fastest way to do this ? I have no experience in setting 
> up something like this, although I am comfortable with linux in general. I've 
> looked at LDAP but I think that would be overkill. Is there anything built-in 
> the FC that will work out of the box ? The RHEL 4 machine is going to be the 
> server for authentication and NFS. Any help or pointer to any good docs would 
> be greatly appreciated. 

If LDAP scares you off, a simpler alternative is NIS. See
http://www.linux-nis.org/

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>




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