2008/9/11 Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Neil Greenwood wrote: >> 2008/9/10 Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Quoting Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >>>> Hi folks, >>>> >>>> This is a bit of a long shot but I thought I'd ask anyway... >>> <snip> >>>> Now I was wondering if it was possible with Samba to configure it so >>>> when a new Samba account is created, an equivalent *nix login account >>>> and home directory is created on the backup servers? >>> 1) Use LDAP with replication instead of /etc/passwd >>> 2) Rsync /home as part of a cronjob across all the servers >>> 3) Ensure that you can run LDAP traffic across the VPN (If you;re not >>> already, try using openvpn - it rocks!). >>> >> >> To follow on from Matthew's points, Rob: >> >> Setting up LDAP to use as a replacement for /etc/passwd was recently >> covered in Linux Format. Look at issues 104 (setting up LDAP and >> adding users) and 105 (using LDAP for login authentication and >> mounting /home/<user> via NFS). >> >> HTH too! >> >> Neil. >> > > Hmm, I should have those issues. Great I'll read up on it :-) > > Rob >
Regarding your other question about LDAP guides, in one of the issues Chris Brown (the author of the articles) mentions the two references he uses for LDAP. I can't remember what they are, nor which issue - although I have a feeling it might be the first one. Vague I know, but it might help further! Hwyl, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
