On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 11:41 -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > I have about 3 computers in my home network running FC 3 / 4 and RHEL (maybe > more in the future). I am planning to have somekind of a central > authentication in a server, so that I don't have to manage users in all of > the computer separately (mainly would be for family members). I also want > the /home directory for each users NFS mounted from this server. I plan to > also have a public share directory from this server which is mounted in each > computer (ie. for storing pictures, music, etc). > > What is the easiest / fastest way to do this ? I have no experience in setting > up something like this, although I am comfortable with linux in general. I've > looked at LDAP but I think that would be overkill. Is there anything built-in > the FC that will work out of the box ? The RHEL 4 machine is going to be the > server for authentication and NFS. Any help or pointer to any good docs would > be greatly appreciated. If LDAP scares you off, a simpler alternative is NIS. See http://www.linux-nis.org/ Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
