>>> "Joseph" == Joseph S Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip]
Joseph> 1. Is there a method to centralize my user
Joseph> administration or am I doomed to have to add each
Joseph> potential user to each machine? This leads to question #2
Joseph> where / how to mount /user/home
Joseph> 2. I would like to keep all /user/home directories
Joseph> on one machine. Is it possible to setup the login
Joseph> procedure to "mount" /user/home across the network or do I
Joseph> need to teach every one (including myself) how to use
Joseph> telnet or what?
[snip]
Telnet isn't necessary. Each user doesn't need an account on each
machine. You need NFS.
You could have all the /home directories on an NFS server, and add
/home 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw)
in /etc/exports on the server. (Let's call the server 'blue'.)
Then enter the information about the /home into /etc/fstab
blue:/home/ben /home/ben nfs rw 0 0
The directory /home/ben on his machine must, of course, be empty.
A problem may arise in this scenario:
User 'ben' on machine 'white' has UID 501 and GID 501 there and
User 'amy' on machine 'green' has UID 501 and GID 501 there.
The map_static option in /etc/exports is used to coordinate UIDs and
GIDs.
/home/ben white(map_static=/etc/nfs/white.map)
/home/amy green(map_static=/etc/nfs/green.map)
so /etc/nfs/white.map would include
uid 501 2001
and /etc/nfs/green.map would include
uid 501 3001
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