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- From: dave@nakiska.ucs.ualberta.ca (David Ross)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Campus-Wide Login space & Tools
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.160030.4533@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 16:00:30 GMT
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
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- Well, this is kind of a big question so general answers are quite all
- right for now, although actual names of people and products are even
- better!
-
- At the U of A, we're looking at ways of trying to manage our ever-growing
- campus LANs and backbone networks. We see the potential need of sharing
- files across the campus and this really isn't possible without a way of
- controlling UID space across campus.
-
- The eventual goal I suppose is to bring every machine on campus into a
- campus-wide login space and we'd love to hear any experiences from other
- sites trying to accomplish this. For now, we would be happy to bring even
- our own department of 50 or so personal workstations and another 50 or so
- labs into a common login space.
-
- Can anybody recommend any ways of doing this? The most obvious product
- that comes to mind is NIS. This will work, but does it scale easily to
- the rest of campus? I don't really think so. I think the Athena products
- do this but if so, do we need to run a full Athena implementation to make
- it work? Kinda looks that way.
-
- The other problem then is if we decide to remap our 50 workstations to a
- common uid space, we have to convert all the files for these users to the
- new uid. Does anybody have any tools/rules to do this, or should we just
- wing it?
-
- Should we even be attempting this???? Any comments or help are greatly
- appreciated!!! Thanks!
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- David A. Ross, Programmer Analyst | dave@nakiska.ucs.ualberta.ca
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