Bernhard D Rohrer wrote:
> Hi guys
>> I have been wondering about notebook users and ldap authentication. I
> am thinking about notebooks that only have an admin user and apart
> from that get all their users via LDAP. The basic mechanism that I am
> envisioning is to install slapd on all notebooks and to use ldap
> replication to master server in order to keep things current. user
> directories would be transferred via iServer. Has this ever been done
> before? am I off my cuff? ;)
>Well I've done the same with NIS, so I guess its not such a mad idea.
I was gonna head that way when I convert over to ldap (mainly for Samba
auth)
> A quick look at uncle google didn't turn up anything likely
>> cheers
>> Bernhard
>
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