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[Randy Ramsdell]

Michael A. Peters wrote:
> Mike Chambers wrote:
>> On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 23:19 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
>>  
>>> On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:31:23 -0600
>>> "Joe W. Byers" <ecjbosu at aol.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>    
>>>> I want to set it us so that my family has only one login for each 
>>>> machine and all information is stored on the server.       
>>> You may want to look at http://www.ltsp.org
>>>
>>> Note that you will want to use LTSP 4.2, not version 5.
>>>     
>>
>> What about setting up NFS and using mounted /home/dir's from the
>> server?   
> You really only want to do that if all the boxes are running the same 
> version of the same distro.
> Different versions of, say, evolution don't always play nice with the 
> same configuration files.
>
I am assuming you are talking about taking care of two very different 
issues. To authenticate users, I would use LDAP although Kerberos will 
work too. The second thing is data/settings etc... which has already 
been discussed here.