Re: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-30 Thread Darryl Clarke
On 7/29/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I currently have a small home network (1 server, 1 workstation, 1 > laptop) with only two users. What I would like to do is to setup some > sort of centralized user authentication mechanism (NIS, LDAP, whatever) > with hom

Re: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 09:57:17PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Two things come to mind, neither of which I've used (or used enough) > to judge their viability. > > (1) rsync > which I'm told is a way of keeping two file systems in sync with one another > I currently make heavy use of rsync.

Re: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 02:35:56AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > Not long after I started getting to grips with debian, I asked a similar > question and a guy call Todd Pytel sent me a lot of info and suggestions > for solutions (some of it off-list). You should be able to find the > thread by

Re: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 08:01:28PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Greetings, > > I currently have a small home network (1 server, 1 workstation, 1 > laptop) with only two users. What I would like to do is to setup some > sort of centralized user authentication mechanism (NIS, LDAP, whatever)

Re: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (29/07/05 20:01), Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I currently have a small home network (1 server, 1 workstation, 1 > laptop) with only two users. What I would like to do is to setup some > sort of centralized user authentication mechanism (NIS, LDAP, whatever) > with home directories mounted from