Quoting Bryan Murdock <[email protected]>: > It's been a while since I've looked at setting this up, but if a group > has a number of linux machines and each user wants to be able to log > on to each machine and have access to the same home directory, is the > state of the art still nfs and nis?
Before sjansen says it: Friends don't let friends use NIS. I've set this up before using NIS and NFS. I also put automount into the mix so home directories would mount on the fly and unmount after so long. Looking back at what I did, it worked, but it could have been better. I'm currently setting this sort of thing up again for the same group with updated Linux / Software. This time around, I'm going to set up NFS to use static ports so then I can use iptables to allow just those ports in and block everything else. I'd also like to get it work with LDAP instead of NIS. I have docs for this half written (testing using some VPS-es on my desktop) and I was going to post them on my blog, but I don't know how long that will be. Could be next week, could be June. Until then, Google is your friend. -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
