Hi,
"Reijnders, JTA (John)" schrieb:
> But
> more info would be helpfull... (environment size, geographical distribution,
> is the Unix DS leading for user admin, etc.etc.)
Since so many of you asked for more information, I'll try to depict the
setup of our site here:
We have some twenty- or thirty thousand accounts for students and
employees, I guess that about two or three thousand accounts per year
are created/deleted, with most of the activity happening over a span of
only a few weeks.
The the university is scattered across the whole city, everything is
connected via Ethernet, FDDI-lines, and other high-speed coonections,
some remote sites are connected with whatever wireless method, but we
may neglect the latter for the time being.
For the UNIX people, all their home-directories are held on a central
server, we postponed the decision about where to put the
Windows-people's homedirectories, so we could at least bring up the user
management to some usable state.
As for the Metadirectory mentioned below, I don't know to what extent
it's usable, the whole project was already attempted at a year ago, but
came to a grinding halt and nobody took care of it since I came. The man
in charge of the X.500-directory said that the meta-directory-server
once ran, but the current state is ill-defined. So, if we got the
Meta-Directory up and running again on the UNIX-side, we could also use
this one, once again, none of my documentation gives me a hint about how
to connect to a meta-directory on the UNIX-side.
+---------------+ /\
| AIX - Cluster |-----<->--\ / \
+---------------+ | /DNS,\
| /X.500,\
+---------------+ | / Mail- \
| SUN - Cluster |-----<->--+--<->-/ relay, \
+---------------+ | / consisting \
| /of two servers\
+---------------+ | /one master, one \
|Numbercrunching|-----<->--/ /slave, X.500-Meta-\
| & others ... | /directory (currently\
+---------------+ /inoperative), X.500 \
/stores no passwords \
/so far. \
/____________________________\
. |
. X
. |
/-------------------\ /------------\
|Windows world, | |My job, con-|
|only uses DNS, and |-----/X\-----|nect these |
|SMTP, no real User-| \------------/
|management |
\-------------------/
|
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