piltdownster wrote:
> When planning a Linux network (Linux server and clients) what is the
> best method for about 15 users with flexibility to add and remove
> users as required?
It seems that this is what NIS is built for.
> As far as I am aware the choices are nfs, nis and samba. Please
> correct me if I'm wrong but with nfs you have to setup the users and
> groups on the server and each of the clients which seems a bit
> inflexible when you need to add and remove users on a regular basis.
You could share files like /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and whatnot over a
nfs share, then only add users on the nfs server, but that seems a
little convoluted.
> I gather than with nis you just need to setup the users (and
> groups?) on the server and configure each of the desktop PCs as nis
> clients. But, I've heard that it is difficult to setup and is
> insecure.
I can't imagine it's much harder or more insecure than the nfs scheme I
described above.
> The other alternative is samba, but I am right in thinking this is
> primarilly for hooking up Windows PCs to a Linux server?
You are correct. This is definitely not the server you want to use.
Chad Martin
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