Ok...the other problem we are having is that all of our servers have
different directory structures...and each user may have a different
directory path on each server....how do we over come this? I'm looking
for something that will just check an authentication database for
username and password and/or that database will give the correct path
based on the server he/she is authenticating from. The reason I'm
looking for a solution is that the cobalts put their users in a wierd
directory structure as opposed to the linux standard of
/home/*accountname" or the sysv standard of /usr/"accountname"
Any clues?? Or have I confused you all??
Thanks,
Brent
----- Original Message -----
From: David L. Parsley (lkml account) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Brent Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
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Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: Best Network setup for linux/unix
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > I need some suggestions on setting up a unix server farm
that all =
> > > gets authenticated from a single server. What is the best way of
doing =
> > > this?
> >
> > Advice #1: Don't do it. Not for servers. Otherwise the failure of
your
> > authentication host leaves you dead in the water.
> >
> > > I know I could use NIS but is that really the best way to do it?
The =
> >
> > NIS works, its not terribly secure. LDAP is more powerful but a
bugger
> > to set up
>
> Yup, I think RedHat jumped the gun a tad with the phrase 'integrated
LDAP'
> - but I managed pam & nss ldap on the laptop (and now I'll implement
at
> the college). I agree a monolithic auth server is a single point of
> failure and bad. Is there a nice way to do failover w/ LDAP? (I
don't
> remember anything from pam_ldap and nss_ldap) Heartbeating and such
> would make it a _real_ bugger to set up.
>
> David
>
> >
> > > problem we are having is that we are using two cobalts, one
intel web =
> > > server, and finally one intel mail server. I want a centralized
=
> >
> > NIS works across OS's and across platforms. Well mostly anyway 8)
> >
> > Alan
> >
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> City of Salem Schools
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