[ale] linux's flavor of remote validation?

[James P. Kinney III]

Provided you are behind a firewall, NIS and NFS have been used
successfully to do exactly that. NIS provides the login authentication
and NFS provides the /home/user directory structure.

LDAP is the replacement for both. I have not used it yet. There is
copious documentation for it. www.ldap.org

On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 23:05, Mark Hurley wrote:
> Have a network...computers all tethered together.  A samba box
> operating as a PDC to the windows machines.  Everything is lovely,
> right? wrong...
> 
> I just added a second linux box.  BUT....I want to log on and off
> authenticating from the main "linux" (PDC) box.  In fact...I want to
> "share" or in fact use my original home directory on the first (main)
> linux box.
> 
> Options:
> 
> 1) nfs ???
> 2) LDAP
> 3) ???
> 
> Pros/Cons? Seems like no matter where I go on google....I can easily
> find out how to hook up more window's machines.  But what about linux
> to linux? I want to log on either box and have my /home and be
> validated with that one linux box.
> 
> Any suggestions, links...are greatly appreciated.  I am running Debian
> and Debian....no animals were hurt in the connection of all those
> windows samba logins. ;)
> 
> <some_humor>
> BTW....if you see Ken (on the list, meeting or kenzoid.com)...pat him 
> on the back....he took $20 off of me in a bet I threw down, by putting 
> down copious quantities of the hottest darn sauce today (at the new 
> Hooters).  Find out more about the sauce at hothothot.com  
> (no, not porn)  ;)
> </some_humor>
> 
> Mark Hurley
> 
> 
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