[TriLUG] Small Network User Management

[Jason Tower]

i believe NIS + NFS (and maybe autofs) is your friend and ally.  i'm 
sure there are several HOWTOs on the subject, a quick google search 
turned up the following:

http://www.thelinuxpimp.com/main/print.php?sid=456

which should be a decent start.

jason


On Wednesday 23 April 2003 14:08, Tarus Balog wrote:
> Gang:
>
> Okay, I am still torn between Debian and Mandrake, but I appreciate
> the advice on both sides. Mandrake's security package may be what
> makes the decision for me.
>
> But I have another question. I want to set up a way to manage a group
> of users on a small group of about ten machines. I want a common home
> directory (nfs or smbfs), username and password.
>
> I really don't want to set up LDAP or anything like that, and I would
> be happy just copying files from one machine to another (like passwd,
> group, etc) since I won't be adding users very often, and there won't
> be many of them.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> -T