Right, I'm familiar with all of those. I wanted to know which particular method Martin was using.
Petre Jean-Michel Dault wrote: > Le jeudi 01 mars 2007 à 08:28 -0600, Peter Scheie a écrit : > >> Just curious: how are you handling user authentication and sharing the /home >> directory >> among your servers, such that it doesn't matter which server a user is >> connected to? > > For authentication, you have multiple options: > 1) static /etc/passwd, rsync every night on many servers > 2) NIS (obsolete, but common with Solaris) > 3) LDAP (either OpenLDAP or eDirectory or Active Directory) > 4) Pam_winbind and an NT domain controller > > We use LDAP heavily in multiple locations, from 20 to 40,000 users. It > requires a little bit of setup, but it's really not that hard. > > For sharing the /home, there is only one reliable solution: NFS. Sure, > there are tricks to use Windows or Novell servers, but KDE relies > heavily on symbolic links, pipes, sockets, and the only filesystem that > properly handles those is NFS. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
