[wellylug] Linux Client-Server System

[Jethro Carr]

On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 20:24 +0000, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> However, a "correct" LDAP setup is still complex, so you might be happy
> with just manually keeping accounts/password in sync.

I would be happy with all the user account settings (password, uid, gid,
etc) stored on the local machine.


> Anyway, the only thing you have to figure out beyond a simple install of
> everything is automounting directories (i.e. /home/<user>) ...


Ideally, I would like the system to automatically mount the remote home
partition for the user, when the user logs in.

Is there anyway I can do this?

I don't want to have passwords in clear text in /etc/fstab, otherwise
this would be a way to go. Would it be safe to have passwords
in /etc/fstab, providing it was only root readable? I use the same
password for root and for my day-to-day account and my shares, so the
root password would be in plain text. I don't like the feel of having
text only passwords. If one machine's file got read, they would know my
password for all of the other machines.


Searching via google, I have heard stuff about needing samba and gdm to
be built with pam, to allow samba logins via gdm. Anyone know anything
about this?


thanks,
-- 
Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jedolinux.com>


www.jethrocarr.jedolinux.com

www.jethrocarr.jedolinux.com/index.php?page=cv/cv.php

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