Re: Laptops, centralized authentication, and roaming profiles

2005-06-08 Thread Tony Shadwick
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Henry Miller wrote: On 6/7/2005 at 19:09 Tony Shadwick wrote: I have a question of theory that has been bugging me that I thought I would throw at the list. Presume this configuration: a typical small to medium sized company, we'll say 25 workstations, all running some

Re: Laptops, centralized authentication, and roaming profiles

2005-06-08 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 8, 2005, at 11:13 AM, Tony Shadwick wrote: Ooohgood call on the vpn. Set it up to where they have a local user, and local home directory, vpn in. Okay, so now I'm on the network, presuming the pptp server was authing against OpenLDAP or NIS. Add a script to that login that

Re: Laptops, centralized authentication, and roaming profiles

2005-06-08 Thread Tony Shadwick
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Henry Miller wrote: On 6/8/2005 at 10:13 Tony Shadwick wrote: On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Henry Miller wrote: Ooohgood call on the vpn. Set it up to where they have a local user, and local home directory, vpn in. Okay, so now I'm on the network, presuming the pptp

Re: Laptops, centralized authentication, and roaming profiles

2005-06-08 Thread Tony Shadwick
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Charles Swiger wrote: On Jun 8, 2005, at 11:13 AM, Tony Shadwick wrote: Ooohgood call on the vpn. Set it up to where they have a local user, and local home directory, vpn in. Okay, so now I'm on the network, presuming the pptp server was authing against OpenLDAP or

Laptops, centralized authentication, and roaming profiles

2005-06-07 Thread Tony Shadwick
I have a question of theory that has been bugging me that I thought I would throw at the list. Presume this configuration: a typical small to medium sized company, we'll say 25 workstations, all running some version of *nix, for sanity we'll presume all FreeBSD, but I see no reason some