NFS Roaming Profiles

Darryl Clarke smartssa at gmail.com
Mon May 16 17:24:51 UTC 2005


On 5/16/05, Joe Wiedenmeier <ubuntujoe at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am exploring Ubuntu. My envorironment is K-12
> education. Linux servers, one with all student and
> faculty home folders. I want to be able to log on to a
> Ubuntu workstation and have Home directories mapped to
> that workstation via NFS. I can map the directories,
> mount the nfs homes, but I don't know how to make
> Ubuntu log in using NFS to log user in. Thanks for
> your help.

You need to use a centralized login system.  NIS is fairly easy to
setup; although some may say it's not as convenient or secure as other
options.

On the server you configure it as an NIS server for your 'domain';

On each connecting workstation you configure them as NIS clients in
your 'domain'.  Then all logins are done via the central server's
passwords.

Also, on each connecting workstation, you can have them set to use the
NFS home folder as the system's /home.  Just throw it in /etc/fstab if
you haven't already so it gets mounted at bootup.

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