Neil Greenwood wrote: > 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. >
Hmm, I should have those issues. Great I'll read up on it :-) Rob -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
