On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, John Summerfield wrote:

> Apart from those files people have already mentioned, you also need to think
> about home directories.

Not that I have (any) experience with distributed Unix environments, but I
always thought that this kind of thing was managed using NIS for the user
account data and an NFS-exported filestore for home directories.  Nowadays
I guess you would use LDAP in place of NIS (as John suggests), and
perhaps another distributed filesystem such as Coda or GPFS instead of
NFS.

Cheers,
Vic Cross

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