Central authentication and roaming profiles

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 09:53 +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
> Le 15/11/2011 11:28, Nicolas Kovacs a écrit :
> > I've decided to move to Ubuntu LTS, and now I'm pondering: what to use
> > to setup roaming profiles ? Samba or NFS for the server ? NIS or LDAP
> > for user data ? Something else (what) ? I don't mind if there's a lot of
> > RTFM to do, as long as the end result is solid and reliable. It's meant
> > for production environments like town halls and schools.
> >
> > Any suggestions ?
> 
> I'm quite surprised that after a week there is not a single response to 
> a question that should be common to Ubuntu sysadmins. And it's also 
> frustrating, since checking this mailing list makes me first wade 
> through heaps of junk messages like "My request to ubuntu developer 
> team" or "Liam wants to argue" or similar spam. Poor signal-to-noise 
> ratio as it seems.
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pretty basic/obvious answers

NIS is ancient technology and offers very little security so LDAP is the
way to go.

NFS if we are talking about Linux/POSIX users with 'roaming' profiles
though in actuality, their profiles don't roam, NFS handles the $HOME
directory mounts.

You can easily configure $HOME automounts in LDAP

Yes, the signal to noise ratio is high on this list.

Craig


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