From: Pol <xtekhne@gmail.com>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: installing multuple distributions
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:57:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gmor5c$urf$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 498C1854.9090808@agitate.org.uk
Adam T. Bowen wrote:
> Be careful if you intend to merge the different passwd and group files
> because different distros may use different default IDs for system
> accounts. A fun, but maybe slightly complicated way of doing this, would
> be to store your user accounts in LDAP and have the LDAP data files on a
> shared partition (/home would do). Make sure all the system users (UID <
> 100) are stored in each distribution's local /etc/passwd file and set up
> your nsswitch.conf so that it reads files and then ldap. Of course if
> you are only going to have one user account, then this is *way* over the
> top (but it would certainly teach you a lot about LDAP based
> authentication).
I am not a professional. Is there an easy way to try ldap?
thank you
--P
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-09 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-06 7:55 installing multuple distributions Pol
2009-02-06 11:00 ` Adam T. Bowen
2009-02-09 8:57 ` Pol [this message]
2009-02-09 11:37 ` urgrue
2009-02-07 2:00 ` Yuri Csapo
2009-02-09 8:46 ` [--tech--]Re: " Pol
2009-02-10 9:57 ` Mateusz Marzantowicz
2009-02-11 9:51 ` Glynn Clements
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