On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 08:20:27AM -0800, the CyberLizard wrote: > I think I helped spawn the off-topic threads... whoops. My apologies.
Some notes on this message: 1. Please make your subject lines more indicative of the contents of the message. I am changing it now to serve as an example. 2. Your message has very little to do with the OT thread you replied to (other than your one line apology above). Perhaps an entirely new message would have been more appropriate. > Anyway, here's a technical question: how does one go about optimizing > NIS and/or NFS so users can remotely log-in to a Linux box (and keep a > remote /home directory)? Instead of NIS you may prefer to use LDAP-based authentication. There are NSS and PAM LDAP libraries/modules available that will allow you to store user information centrally in an LDAP server. This is more secure than the NIS approach, and should be more scaleable as well. With NSS properly setup NFS-mounted /home's should work as expected, as well. Please search the archives[1] for more information. This has been discussed before as I asked a lot of questions when I deployed a setup like this here. [1] http://marc.free.net.ph/ > We're setting up one of the IT Labs in my school to dual-boot > Linux/Win2K boxen, and we found that NIS/NFS was too taxing on the > network, especially when a whole class of 40 students would be using > their home directories for compiling Java servlets... <shudders> This is more of an NFS issue than a NIS or NSS issue, I think. The NFS-HOWTO[2] has a chapter on optimization that should help. You my also consider filesystem and hardware modifications. While I decided to shift to ext3 from XFS awhile back, I have found that XFS performs much better than ext3 for most operations, and this is noticeable on NFS at least as far as my experience goes. You may also want to consider upgrading your NFS server's I/O subsystem. You may want to consider RAID, for example, if you haven't yet. [2] http://ldp.free.net.ph/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : http://jijo.free.net.ph : When we speak of free Network Administrator : The Leather Collection, Inc. : software we refer to GnuPG Key ID : 0x93B746BE : freedom, not price. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
