Unify Users accounts on several systems....

javock

Hello,

I running 2 SPARC linux machines (possibly a third one comming). And I would like to have both machines share the /home and users. Although I want the system users (bin, root, etc) to be different on each machine (I don't think bin, etc, but root should definately be different for security reasons, right?) I thouth of YP from what I learned years ago... and NFS for sharing /home, it is in a local network, so encryption is not necesary (although welcomed). Can I have quotas over NFS or it is in the fs that I must trust for this (reiser3, so no luck whiout patches).
Anyway, tips, comments, suggestions? 2 computers, same users, same /home.

Thanks!
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msalerno · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 2:22 pm Post subject:

Well, for the shared user database, I would recommend using LDAP. A combination of ldap and nfs sounds like it would do what you need it to.

rquotad (part of net-fs/nfs-utils) is an rpc server which returns quotas for a user of a local file system which is mounted by a remote machine over the NFS The results are used by quota (1) to display user quotas for remote file systems. The rquotad daemon is normally started at boottime from the rc.net script

javock · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 3:16 pm Post subject:

Thanks, LDAP was what I found, but I heard is difficult... shame I don't have much time to spend learning