> I have two Linux boxes, one is a server and holds the usernam/password > file, however it's HDDs are full and so are the available slots, ie I > cannot just add another drive I would have to replace one. The > other Linux > box can be a server or workstation but it does have a very large HDD. > I would like to be able to use that computer to store all the user Home > directories which at the moment are under /home/popusers/year/username. > > I only want to maintain one list of usernames and passwords on > the original > server, in fact this is the second list - the first is on the NT server. >
To syncronize username/passwords between *nix systems, I sugest looking into NIS. NFS will do fine to mount the file system remotely, and with NIS keeping usernames syncronized there won't be issues with different username/userids on the two systems. - Doug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
