2008/9/10 Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quoting Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Hi folks, >> >> This is a bit of a long shot but I thought I'd ask anyway... > <snip> >> Now I was wondering if it was possible with Samba to configure it so >> when a new Samba account is created, an equivalent *nix login account >> and home directory is created on the backup servers? > > 1) Use LDAP with replication instead of /etc/passwd > 2) Rsync /home as part of a cronjob across all the servers > 3) Ensure that you can run LDAP traffic across the VPN (If you;re not > already, try using openvpn - it rocks!). >
To follow on from Matthew's points, Rob: Setting up LDAP to use as a replacement for /etc/passwd was recently covered in Linux Format. Look at issues 104 (setting up LDAP and adding users) and 105 (using LDAP for login authentication and mounting /home/<user> via NFS). HTH too! Neil. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
