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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