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On 24-Jul-2002/23:00 +0000, Wesley Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I was wondering how I would be able to get all user accounts managed from
>the one machine.  I have looked at pam_radius and pam_smb, and both,
>while authenticating from a designated server, require an account to be
>set up on the workstation that they are running on.

Supposedly there is a way to get pam_smb to authenticate a user without
them having a local account. See the 'nolocal' option in the config
section of this page:

  http://samba.org/ftp/unpacked/pam_smb/INSTALL

>I remember my university having such a system, where new machines could
>be added to the network, and everybodies account would still work on the
>new machines.  How did they do that?

Probably using NIS authentication and NFS mounted home dirs.

Tony
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