Re: authentication server
tsitras@spymac.com wrote:
Hi iam looking to setup a small network, that consists of 5 PCs, and a server.
I assume all these machines are running Debian?
for start there will be no internet in the network. My question is i would like
to have the server to create user accounts for the other pcs. could someone tell
me where i could find some tutorials on how to have this kind of structure in the network?
You might find a thin-client solution to be the best/easiest. This way the clients merely function as an input/display device, and all the processing is done on the server. See the Linux Terminal Server Project (http://www.ltsp.org/) for more info.
If you want fat clients, you can still authenticate off the server, but I've never done it successfully (I've tried to authenticate off a Windows NT Domain server (nasty, but it's the network I'm stuck in)), but I think in your case LDAP might be the way to go. I'd suggest googling for "Linux LDAP authentication" for starters.
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Kent
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