Copying over users without LDAP

[David Van Assche]

Really, you just need to do an nfs export if you have copied the passwd,
shadow and group files from the main box into the chroot. This document
shows you how to do that, and has a little script which you can launch from
lts.conf at bootup:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPFatClients

Kind Regards,
David

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Kai Wollweber <wollw at ki.tng.de> wrote:

> On Tuesday 06 May 2008 01:33:36 Krsnendu dasa wrote:
> > Previously was using LDAP but now I am using the built in
> > authentication for users. (I found it hard to get LDAP and samba
> > working nicely in Hardy.)
> > I want to test out one box in just one classroom by copying /home and
> > user authentication information to the new box and rsyncing it daily
> > with the box that serves the rest of the school.
>
> What is the authentication used on the main box? If it is linux with PAM
> you
> can use nis and nfs. There is no need of rsyncing password files and home
> dirs.
>
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