Re: [newbie] SOHO System Administration
Hi Joe, Just some ideas.. Set up the boxes as trusted hosts in the hosts.allow Use a make file that is kicked by cron to rcp /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/shadow- /etc/group from your central Administration machine to the remotes. Setup the central Administration machine to nfs share it's /home and the remotes to mount it as their home in the fstab. I would auto kick a script in a cron that would baby-sit this connection (mount) as well for nfs is not very robust. That would do it. Christopher Cox Cobox Marysville Ohio PS use a safe IP structure like 192.168.1. or 10.1 for the house, you will probably want to masquerade in the future.
Re: [newbie] SOHO System Administration
I'm working on something similar for home use. I've not gotten as far as you seem to be, but I have a text called "LINUX Network Toolkit". It's centered on a LINUX server using SAMBA to connect to Microsoft clients. It does have a good section however, on setting up users. You might check that text or the IDG site. http://www.idgbooks.com. Configuration in LINUX should be very similar regardless of the client. Keeping a split system like you plan will affect your planning/implementation for sure. I'd love to hear what success you have. Solutions as well as I might run into the same problems. My hardware includes a LINUX box, a dual boot LINUX/Win box, 2 Win only boxes and an Apple iBook with AirPort hub and so on. Mine is definitely going to be fun to figure out. Stay in touch, B. B. "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: Evening All, I have a small home office with 5 PC's and several users (read kids here). At present one is Linux-Mandrake 6.1 and the others are Win NT 4.0 and Win95. It is my intention to convert all but 1 into Linux boxes. I also intend to allow any user to sit down at any PC and login. My question are 1. Is there a method to centralize my user administration or am I doomed to have to add each potential user to each machine? This leads to question #2 where / how to mount /user/home 2. I would like to keep all /user/home directories on one machine. Is it possible to setup the login procedure to "mount" /user/home across the network or do I need to teach every one (including myself) how to use telnet or what? I have searched through about a dozen books I have and nothing even comes close to hinting at a solution. TIA -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] SOHO System Administration
"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 5012001 and /etc/nfs/green.map would include uid 5013001 -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-14mdk
