Pol wrote: > 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 LDAP is, despite the name (Lighweight Directory Access Protocol) not very "lightweight". Unless you already have active directory (which is basically just ldap), I would consider something a bit simpler like NIS+. NIS+ is pretty antiquated but if all you want is to share passwd/group/etc information, it might be an option to consider. There are other options too, such as Hesiod, but i havent them. -- 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
