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I have several computers that I want to regularly use linux on (Slackware). Occasionally I switch between computers because of the hardware differences, sometimes I want to run a game, or a server, etc.
I would like consistency without having to duplicate everything on each system I go to. What would be the easiest way to have something similar to "roaming profiles" and central authentication?
I would suggest you to configure an LDAP server / Centralized home directory server for authentication / home directories. This will make the single point of authentication for all user plus you can export home directories from this server via NFS. So, whenever you will login you will be authenticated to this server and home directories will be mapped via NFS.
Last edited by T3RM1NVT0R; 10-04-2011 at 05:50 PM.
Unfortunately, Slackware doesn't support PAM. Now obviously this is something I could do myself, but before getting involved with manually installing PAM and the other required packages, I want to make sure there is not any other way of doing this.
What about a config replication daemon such as puppet. You could "mirror" /etc/{passwd,group,shadow}. I don't know anything about slackware but if you don't have access to a package manager, programs installation I guess is going to be tricky if you've got different hardware.
You could maybe mirror installation scripts ? Or install your custom programs to a dedicated partition /opt and rsync it between similar hardware ?
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