How do the linux clients authenticate when the user logs on?
On 9/24/05, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 02:03:52PM +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote:
> I am currently helping out my old high school. They have just got some "new"
> pc's and they are wanting to run a dual boot setup on them with windows 2k
> and gentoo. The profile and home directories are all on a server and are
> mounted once the user has logged on and authenticated... nothing out of the
> ordinary there.
>
> Now how does one do the same thing with a linux client ie: the user log in
> is authenticated on the server and once that is done their home directory is
> mounted on the client for them?
>
how many clients? AFAIK, on the linux computers in my department in a
university just has a file server, which gets mounted by every linux
box as NFS, and /home/user is just a link to /mountpoint/user
I've never administered a large network before, so I don't know how
relevant this information is, but the above solution seems to work for
our department and supports about 500 people, 150 machines or so.
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