There are 3 primary systems for doing this, one for Windows called Active Directory, one for Linux which is a combination of NIS and NFS and lastly there is the Samba-LDAP + NFS arrangement which I use to do it in a cross-platform manner.
First thing you have to do is figure out how to run NFS to share out the /home directory.
For the rest, try the last 3 articles on OpenLDAP at http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/
They are on the right hand side under "Recent MandrakeSecure Documents"
I've got a few machines at home that I'd like to set up to share users so I don't have to keep files & passwords in sync across multiple boxes.
I'm having trouble figuring out how to do this. Fact is, as an admin, I'm a newbie, and I don't even know where to start looking for info on how to do this.
I have read that you can make samba act as a windows domain controller, which would do the trick if necessary, but I pretty much only use Linux at home (no current windows boxes).
I had thought that LDAP might be a route to handle this, but I can't even find a source on configuring LDAP that I can understand. (I'm a bit sleep deprived right now, so that probably isn't helping.)
Can anybody help me out or point me in the right direction? Thansk.
- Theo
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