[Gllug] LDAP

[Jim Cheetham]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 04:07:17PM +0100, Simon Stewart wrote:
> Has anyone had a play with LDAP? One of the things I'd like to be do
> with minimal grief is to centralise my user administration, and only
> have to create an LDAP entry to let someone log onto any machine that
> I feel they should be able to (creating the home directory if it
> doesn't already exist, for example) Whilst pam_ldap allows me to do
> the authentication, I doubt that it'll create the account on the fly
> (oh yes, no centralised storage here, either, but that'll be the next
> thing on the list) and I'm not sure how to go about checking the
> access rights on a per-server basis.

NFS (ugh) mount the home directory file system via an automounter?
Then all your user files are centralised and easier to backup,
without any synchronisation issues ...

-jim

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