Linux and remote accounts.

hussam · 2007-07-11 10:31:41

On windows, at the university, each student can log into any computer using his own username and account and gets the same settings/desktop/files etc.. because it's using remote accounts or something and when we log out, the files get synced to the main server.
Is it possible to setup something similar on Linux?

mucknert · 2007-07-11 11:14:17

That stuff gets done via Active Directory under Windows. It is possible to do the same stuff. The poor mans approach would be to use NFS to export home-directories but a real man does LDAP. So: yes, it is possible but it will require work.

SleepingGiant08 · 2007-07-11 16:27:38

Here is a pretty good tutorial on LDAP: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LDAP-HOWTO/

vxp · 2007-07-11 20:03:39

logging in to every linux machine using the same username/password = LDAP + Kerberos
having your home directory exactly the same on each linux machine = mounting it from a NFS server.

hungsonbk · 2007-07-13 00:03:59

mucknert wrote:

That stuff gets done via Active Directory under Windows. It is possible to do the same stuff. The poor mans approach would be to use NFS to export home-directories but a real man does LDAP. So: yes, it is possible but it will require work.

:D:D:D I don't agree with you. LDAP can be used to manage remote account and other light weight infomation but not the remote user's home directory. The poor man will do that.

The old solution is to use NIS + NFS, in which NIS is used to store account information and NFS is used to map user's home directory.

The new solution is to use LDAP + NFS

mucknert · 2007-07-13 12:01:12

Oh. Okay. Sorry. Learned something.

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Linux and remote accounts.

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