Network Login

[Kevin Fries]

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fly over wrote:

| Hi all professionalz ,
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| I have assigned a tough task on FC 3 platform. the prob definition
| is to setup a Network Login n FC 3 using NIS , DNS and NFS. I have 3
| pcs small network all running FC 3. If i create the user on a 1 pc
| and then create some files on the same pc, then on other system i
| should have ability to login and all the created file should be
| available there. I think it is the basic  of Clustering Mechanism.
| wut do you think ?
|
Are you fixed on NIS?  We use LDAP and the PADL tools to hold user
accounts.  Each machine has its own system accounts (root, bin,
nobody, etc).  When I set up a new account, Fedora allows you to
configure on install that accounts should come from LDAP.  All
accounts are instantly synced between all Linux machines.  The
advantage of this system is that you can then extend it to also act as
a NT PDC to allow Windows machines into the mix, and Macs talk LDAP
natively off the install also.

Very flexible design for your network logins.

As for files available across multiple machines, I would look into
autohome.  Pick whichever machine hold the LDAP server, and also have
it hold your file store.  Then by using automount, your home drives
are stored once only.

I hope I understood your question.  When sharing files like this, it
is best to figure one machine as a server, and not get all caught up
in clustering unless you are trying to increase uptime of network
services.

Kevin Fries
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