Centralized login

[Lai Zit Seng]

Christian Nolte wrote:
> I want to set up a centralized login-system where I can walk to a
> machine, login and get my home-dir automatically from a server (perhaps
> NFS?). When I log out on that machine the home-dir must be synchronized
> with the server, so that I can walk to another machine and have my
> home-dir available after logging in.
> 
> For the login I guess kerberos or ldap would do the trick, but how would
> one setup the home-dir thing? Is it possible to integrate as a pam-module?

As you mentioned... NFS will do the trick. All the client machines can
mount home directories (or even the entire /home) from your NFS server.
There is no synch'ing involved... changes to the filesystem are "live".

Regards,

.lzs
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