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On Wednesday 11 January 2006 13:51, matthew.garman@×××××.com wrote: |
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> Is there a term for the situation where you have one computer as the |
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> "user account master" and every other machine recognizes all user |
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> accounts that are specified on the master? |
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> I'm sure there's plenty of packages and documentation on how to do |
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> this, but I don't know what it's called, so I don't know where to |
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> start looking. |
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> Basically, I have one OpenBSD box and three gentoo boxes. I'd like |
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> to have the same user accounts on all of them, but not have to |
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> manually create them each time. Especially for dealing with Samba |
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> and NFS, it's nice to have consistent accounts. |
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> Given the name of a couple key packages and/or web links, I think I |
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> could figure the rest out. |
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openldap is one way |
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kerberos is another (don't pick this one) |
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nis or YP is another |
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I prefer openldap, but be warned, all of these methods are fairly non-trivial |
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depending on your experience level. |
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maybe there's a way to do it with sama as well? |
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> Thanks! |
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> Matt |
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> Matt Garman |
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> email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email |
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