Le jeudi 01 mars 2007 à 08:28 -0600, Peter Scheie a écrit : > Just curious: how are you handling user authentication and sharing the /home > directory > among your servers, such that it doesn't matter which server a user is > connected to?
For authentication, you have multiple options: 1) static /etc/passwd, rsync every night on many servers 2) NIS (obsolete, but common with Solaris) 3) LDAP (either OpenLDAP or eDirectory or Active Directory) 4) Pam_winbind and an NT domain controller We use LDAP heavily in multiple locations, from 20 to 40,000 users. It requires a little bit of setup, but it's really not that hard. For sharing the /home, there is only one reliable solution: NFS. Sure, there are tricks to use Windows or Novell servers, but KDE relies heavily on symbolic links, pipes, sockets, and the only filesystem that properly handles those is NFS. -- Jean-Michel Dault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Révolution Linux inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
