[ubuntu-uk] Using SAMBA to create users across multiple servers

[Rob Beard]

Neil Greenwood wrote:
> 2008/9/10 Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk>:
>> Quoting Rob Beard <rob at esdelle.co.uk>:
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> This is a bit of a long shot but I thought I'd ask anyway...
>> <snip>
>>> Now I was wondering if it was possible with Samba to configure it so
>>> when a new Samba account is created, an equivalent *nix login account
>>> and home directory is created on the backup servers?
>> 1) Use LDAP with replication instead of /etc/passwd
>> 2) Rsync /home as part of a cronjob across all the servers
>> 3) Ensure that you can run LDAP traffic across the VPN (If you;re not
>> already, try using openvpn - it rocks!).
>>
> 
> To follow on from Matthew's points, Rob:
> 
> Setting up LDAP to use as a replacement for /etc/passwd was recently
> covered in Linux Format. Look at issues 104 (setting up LDAP and
> adding users) and 105 (using LDAP for login authentication and
> mounting /home/<user> via NFS).
> 
> HTH too!
> 
> Neil.
> 

Hmm, I should have those issues.  Great I'll read up on it :-)

Rob