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there should be 100 or so computers. |
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How do the linux clients authenticate when the user logs on? |
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On 9/24/05, Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 02:03:52PM +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote: |
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> > I am currently helping out my old high school. They have just got some |
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> "new" |
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> > pc's and they are wanting to run a dual boot setup on them with windows |
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> 2k |
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> > and gentoo. The profile and home directories are all on a server and are |
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> > mounted once the user has logged on and authenticated... nothing out of |
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> the |
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> > ordinary there. |
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> > Now how does one do the same thing with a linux client ie: the user log |
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> in |
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> > is authenticated on the server and once that is done their home |
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> directory is |
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> > mounted on the client for them? |
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> how many clients? AFAIK, on the linux computers in my department in a |
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> university just has a file server, which gets mounted by every linux |
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> box as NFS, and /home/user is just a link to /mountpoint/user |
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> I've never administered a large network before, so I don't know how |
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> relevant this information is, but the above solution seems to work for |
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> our department and supports about 500 people, 150 machines or so. |
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> W |
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> News headline: |
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> The man who fell into an upholstery machine was fully recovered. |
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> Sortir en Pantoufles: up 43 days, 17:35 |
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> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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"When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at |
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you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free". - Linus |
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Torvalds, 1995 |
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