Re: Laptops, centralized authentication, and "roaming profiles"

2005-06-08 Thread Tony Shadwick
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Charles Swiger wrote: On Jun 8, 2005, at 11:13 AM, Tony Shadwick wrote: Ooohgood call on the vpn. Set it up to where they have a local user, and local home directory, vpn in. Okay, so now I'm on the network, presuming the pptp server was authing against OpenLDAP or NI

Re: Laptops, centralized authentication, and "roaming profiles"

2005-06-08 Thread Tony Shadwick
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Henry Miller wrote: On 6/8/2005 at 10:13 Tony Shadwick wrote: On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Henry Miller wrote: Ooohgood call on the vpn. Set it up to where they have a local user, and local home directory, vpn in. Okay, so now I'm on the network, presuming the pptp server

Re: Laptops, centralized authentication, and "roaming profiles"

2005-06-08 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 8, 2005, at 11:13 AM, Tony Shadwick wrote: Ooohgood call on the vpn. Set it up to where they have a local user, and local home directory, vpn in. Okay, so now I'm on the network, presuming the pptp server was authing against OpenLDAP or NIS. Add a script to that login that moun

Re: Laptops, centralized authentication, and "roaming profiles"

2005-06-08 Thread Tony Shadwick
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Henry Miller wrote: On 6/7/2005 at 19:09 Tony Shadwick wrote: I have a question of theory that has been bugging me that I thought I would throw at the list. Presume this configuration: a typical small to medium sized company, we'll say 25 workstations, all running some

Laptops, centralized authentication, and "roaming profiles"

2005-06-07 Thread Tony Shadwick
I have a question of theory that has been bugging me that I thought I would throw at the list. Presume this configuration: a typical small to medium sized company, we'll say 25 workstations, all running some version of *nix, for sanity we'll presume all FreeBSD, but I see no reason some couldn