On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Corey Donohoe wrote:
> > I understand that it's possible to authenticate against an LDAP server;
> > where I'm fuzzy is the administration of the users' environment. PAM
> > does it's thing, but should a user successfully authenticate, I assume I
> > still need a home directory for them? NFS-mounting a home directory is
> > not really a great idea, given that the machines are separated by great
> > distances.
You can use pam-ldap (padl.com) it works well and makes the
change completly transparent to the machine (you keep using
PAM).
If all the machines are in the same LAN it's not so bad,
to have them mounted by NFS. If you have specific users
on a machine you could consider making the local users
home local and automount the others when needed (no my ideal
of centralized admin, but could do ;) )
LDAP is very flexible and permits almost everthing all
you really have to know is what you want to do... and
have fairly good programing skills.
Good luck
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