Re: [school-discuss] authorization management

[Cameron Miller <cdmiller@adams.edu>]

Jake Maul wrote:
> Greetings,
> How do you manage per-user accounts, spread over multiple client PCs? 
> NIS? LDAP? Manually copied /etc/{passwd,shadow,group} and NFS homedirs?
>
> How do you guys do it?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jake
An alternative to LDAP you might look into is nss-mysql.  In testing 
here nss-mysql has been plenty fast and mysql is less of a headache to 
deal with than LDAP in my experience, (depends on what you need).  We 
were actually testing nss-mysql with radius for authenication for our 
purposes.

NFS homedirs are nice, you could go as far as running a thin client.

- cameron