Network Admin?

[Candy]

Hi All,

Just wondering what (and how) is the best way to administer a small group of Linux machines networked together from just one of the machines.

The main thing I'm interested in is how to work with users and groups from just the one machine.

For example, how can I create a new user account from the 'main' machine so that user can access any one of the machines on the LAN.

Is it possible to have centralized user/password and groups files/databases?

I guess I'm looking for similar functionality to what Win NT does.

All help is greatly appreciated http://discussions.linuxplanet.com/smile.gif

[furrycat]

Yes. You want NIS/NIS+/YP or whatever it's called these days. I seem to recall there being a HOWTO for it over at linuxdoc but I gave up on it after not making very much progress when my project was cancelled.

I suppose if you were an adventurous sort you could look at the nss_mysql (is there an nss_postgres project as well?) project and have all your servers query the main database. Or even a locally replicated copy of the main database.

Sigh. So many things I'd like to try, so little energy upon returning from work...