Hello,

I was given a task. There are two servers (say, A & B). 'A' has all
the user accounts. 'B' has a mounted directory of 'A'(home directories
of those accounts). And there are some scripts in 'A', which when
executed with appropriate arguments, create accounts for users
belongign to specific groups. The thing is that, soon as you create an
account in 'A', you can ssh to 'B' with that account. My task is to
take server 'C' and replace server 'B', since it is aging. I could
mount the folder from 'A' to 'C' but I am unsure as to what I do to
'C' so that any account created in 'A' gets registered in 'C' , so
that they can ssh to 'C' ...please give me some clues. Thank you.

-vinay

The key term in your post is 'mount'. Assuming you truely meant 'mount' as in server 'A' exports via nfs the /home directories then you must first change/add 'C' to the exports file on 'A' and on 'C' the appropriate fstab line to mount /home from 'A'. Again you said 'mount' NOT that 'A's files were being copied to 'B'.

It is not safe to assume that just because 'B' is aging, all preformance problems are due to 'B'. Server 'A' is the one that is actually answering all the requests for /home data/info. Thus as you add users you are putting more demands on the hard drives located in 'A' not 'B'. Your solution may actually require faster drives on the 'A' server.

Hope this answers you ?