Hi
I am looking for a software which would run on a server, which would allow clients from other pc's to log in on the server with their username & pw. their home folders should be located on the server. (quotas with 1000 mb e.g.) we have that at school with novell clients running on win98 & xp, but I am looking for something to run under linux.
they should be able to log in on the server directly when logging in at gdm.
is openldap what I need? I am not sure, on their website they say it's for storing information, but how does authentication work?

thanks alot

quarry

Are you wanting to use an existing database of usernames and passwords? If so, where are they stored just now?

of course it would be very cool if I could store them in a mysql db.
but I am open to other things, but I know mysql best. is this a possibility?

hadn't thought about that, but sounds great!

thanks alot

quarry

If you don't already have a user list then why not just use the shadow password file?

please explain a bit further. you mean a pwd file on the server? where would I define not to check in the local /etc/passwd file?
Shouldn't I be working with PAM & openldap?

thanks

I was suggesting using the local password files.
I'm not sure at this stage what advantage you would gain by doing this.

well I want to learn it, but I haven't been able to figure out now what I actually need. so I will try openldap and pam.
so basically I install a slapd on my server, and then?

thanks

Then start it, add your users, configure pam and that's it.

For managing your users - try these:
http://phpldapadmin.sourceforge.net/
http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~gawor/ldap/