Centralized login

[Robin Laing]

Lai Zit Seng wrote:
> 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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Allso look at NIS or LDAP for managing user accounts.

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Robin Laing