How to have a Server with an unique /etc/passwd and /home with right permission?

frenchn00b · 09-20-2009, 09:11 AM

I have several computers, and want to set up on one Server the /users and passwords?

what is it this daemon for server?
Universities, using linux, use that. One big linux server, that controls all the passwrod and access of students/users...

prasanta · 09-20-2009, 10:25 AM

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I have several computers, and want to set up on one Server the /users and passwords?
what is it this daemon for server?

NIS or LDAP.

Regards,

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Prasanta

frenchn00b · 11-09-2009, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by prasanta

NIS or LDAP.

Regards,

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Prasanta

here is the result : http://yellowprotoss.ye.funpic.org/w...frenchn00b.gif

chrism01 · 11-09-2009, 10:36 PM

NIS is plaintext, so ldap+tls is recommended.
HOWTOs:
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/w...onfiguring_NIS
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/w...DAP_and_RADIUS

frenchn00b · 11-10-2009, 12:12 AM

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Originally Posted by chrism01

NIS is plaintext, so ldap+tls is recommended.
HOWTOs:
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/w...onfiguring_NIS
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/w...DAP_and_RADIUS

The howto isnt that bad.

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Create The Home Directory For ldapuser On The LDAP Client

In this phase, you create the home directory, copy a BASH login profile file into it, and modify the ownership of the directory and all the files to user ldapuser.

Note: If the chown command fails, it is probably because of an incorrect LDAP configuration in which the LDAP client cannot read the user information from the LDAP server.

In some cases, you may want to use NFS mounts to provide home directories for your users, which will significantly reduce the need to do this step. The benefits and disadvantages of NFS are covered in Chapter 29, "Remote Disk Access with NFS", and Chapter 30, "Configuring NIS", covers using NFS for home directories.

[root@smallfry tmp]# mkdir /home/ldapuser
[root@smallfry tmp]# chmod 700 /home/ldapuser/
[root@smallfry tmp]# ll /home
total 2
drwx------ 2 ldapuser users 1024 Aug 4 08:05 ldapuser
[root@smallfry tmp]# cp /etc/skel/.* /home/ldapuser/
cp: omitting directory `/etc/skel/.'
cp: omitting directory `/etc/skel/..'
cp: omitting directory `/etc/skel/.kde'
[root@smallfry tmp]# chown -R ldapuser:users /home/ldapuser
[root@smallfry tmp]#

and without createing hte folder on the /home for each users?
I mean I have already a NFS file server, that will be too login / passwords server, is that possible?