On October 12, 2004 21:02, Shawn wrote: > if I need both). I suspect I'll need NIS, to provide the authentication
NIS is outdated and shouldn't be bothered with except to keep legacy systems up. > services, and NFS to allow generic file access. yes. and preferable NFSv4. > Can this be done with NFS alone? well, not unless you want single sign on. and w/out it you have to keep your UID/GIDs consistent across all the boxes. so. technically: yes. practically: no. > Or should I be looking at LDAP? this is what i'd recommend. it's really not too bad to get set up once you've done it once or twice. SUSE makes it pretty easy, though you still have to do the initial set up by hand. this would actually make a cool little CLUG presentation, as it is easy to go through in well under an hour (assuming one doesn't go into all the gory details and possible options ;) and probably is of fairly high interest. -- Aaron J. Seigo Society is Geometric
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