On Saturday 03 Oct 2009, Hugo Mills wrote: > On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 11:16:39AM +0100, Rob Malpass wrote: > > Can someone tell me please if what I'm trying to do is > > overcomplicating things? I'm thinking of setting up some sort of > > domain controller for the Linux part of my network i.e. to have my > > own (and any other family member's) user area under a remote box as > > opposed to at present where it's located on each box under /home. > > > > (*) Note: Neither of these is strictly true -- NFSv4 can, I believe, > do user-level security on shares, and I recall seeing options in Samba > for mount-level security. However, I know little about either of those > options.
NFSv4 is marginally more complex to set up than NFSv3 but it has a number of advantages: 1) It's TCP based and more tunable, so it's theoretically much faster and easier to route over a network. I've done this without a problem on my boxes at home. 2) It does Kebreros so you can get SSH grade security: authentication, authorisation and encryption, I must confess I've not got this to work yet. -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK I never really understood how there could be things that would drive you insane just because you knew them until I ran into Windows. -- anon -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------