-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 23 May 2003 19.11, fsanta wrote:
On Friday 23 May 2003 18:40, Oskar Teran wrote:
Rikard Johnels wrote:
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Hello all. I just installed 8.2 and LOVE it!!!
I got the notion to use NIS to make logins thru my network easier. I set a NIS server on 192.168.1.2 via Yast2. It seems to run ok. I then make one of the workstations use the NIS Client. Also via Yast2. I get a mesage that it is up and running, but how can i check that it REALLY uses the NIS system? Also; how do i add users to the domain? Is there a gui for that? Or do i have to hack several files manually (again)
I want the network to have a centralized login server, so all my UID/GID are the same no matter what station i log in from.
Is NIS the right way, or shall i use Kerberos, LDAP or what??
To add a user all we do is create a user on the server and restart NIS. Yast does all that under its gui. BTW, are you using autofs or nfs'ing it all to your clients? Would love to hear that NIS was finally going under yast with the automounter. Steve.
Not at the moment. I have the /home/<myusername> locally on my main workstation. But as i also have a few NFS mounts i wanted the UID/GID to be consistent... The next problem i seem to have is to update the passwords. It seems like i cant update my users password. If i do it by root, i get a warning "Can only change local passwords) or something.. And if i jump to the server and change there, i cant login on the workstation anymore... Is there something i need to do withe the old password files? (I found that i had to remove the old entries for my user. Seems like the local shadowed password takes precedence over the NIS.) What i have is a two person "home domain" I run about 100% from my workstation, and the girl from a win2k box. I have my homedir locally (today) and two NFS shares mounted via fstab. She has access (via samba) to the same shared drives. I also have a few users that uses the http and ftp and one or two ssh. These may also from time to time logon locally and do work on location Those need to be able to login too (obviously.. *smile*) The users must be able to change their password wo interaction of root. And thus, wo being able to restart anything... How do i get about? What kind of authentication should use? I had ppl telling me Kerberos is the way to go. Others say LDAP and yet others say NIS.. What shall i use if i want windows to be able to authenticate too? - -- /Rikard - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rikard Johnels email : rjhn@linux.nu Web : http://www.rikjoh.com Mob : +46 70 464 99 39 - ------------------------ Public PGP fingerprint ---------------------------- < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+zmxfWdS2eEYc7lYRAvrWAJ40aTun6JVynhB4MoTJTRgOkYth+gCgn1mg W6pNix8Z055rh7cRt2HSW64= =1N66 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----