Adam T. Bowen wrote: > Be careful if you intend to merge the different passwd and group files > because different distros may use different default IDs for system > accounts. A fun, but maybe slightly complicated way of doing this, would > be to store your user accounts in LDAP and have the LDAP data files on a > shared partition (/home would do). Make sure all the system users (UID < > 100) are stored in each distribution's local /etc/passwd file and set up > your nsswitch.conf so that it reads files and then ldap. Of course if > you are only going to have one user account, then this is *way* over the > top (but it would certainly teach you a lot about LDAP based > authentication). I am not a professional. Is there an easy way to try ldap? thank you --P -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
