Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to set a small lab where one machine will be a server and > 3 or 4 others clients. These clients will mount /home from server and I > would like to have a central authentication. All machines already run > potato.
I did this for 15 workstations and 1 server with NFS and NIS -- following the Debian installation instructions for NIS there were no problems with that (only shadow passwords had to be turned off). I use no automounter as recommended here because I don't see any need for this (why unmount /home?). > What's the better way to do this? Better as more secure would be to use cfengine (packaged in Debian, of course), but I never managed to set up a working script and took the lazy approach above -- it worked `out of the box'. On the other hand, my users are not the hacker type and mostly don't have any Unix knowledge at all, so I hope not to take some bigger risks. I would like to try replacing NIS with LDAP, but by now this seems not obvious (= uncomplicated) for me. Greetings, joachim
