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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!newshub1.home.com!news.home.com!news1.best.com!nntp1.ba.best.com!not-for-mail From: dillon@flea.best.net (Matt Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: quotas and logins over NFS Date: 25 Jun 1997 10:25:04 -0700 Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. - 415 964 BEST Lines: 43 Message-ID: <5ork9g$eoh$1@flea.best.net> References: <33b0780e.344086@news> <5oqpan$2h9@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: flea.best.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43516 :In article <5oqpan$2h9@ui-gate.utell.co.uk>, :Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org, brian@utell.co.uk> wrote: :>[Posted and mailed] :> :>In article <33b0780e.344086@news>, :> rhyde@uclink4.berkeley.edu (Trey) writes: :>> How would I go about setting up a central database of users between a :>> couple FreeBSD 2.2.2 machines? I'm also unsure of how to set quotas :>> for those users to be enforced between their home directories on each :>> machine. Could you just point me in the right direction? Please :>> email me back at rhyde@uclink4.berkeley.edu. :> :>You need to look at "NIS" and the various yp programs (yellow pages). :>There's lots of man pages if you apropos yp. :> :>I've never gone near this, so that's about the best I can do :| :> :>I don't know that you can do any sort of "shared" quotas. :> :>> Thanks :> :>-- :>Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org> :> <http://www.awfulhak.org> :>Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! I would avoid NIS and instead look heavily into kerberos. Kerberos is very difficult to set up if you've never done it before, though, and to do it right you need a small dedicated box to act as the kerberos server. The advantages are many, though. Alternately, you can distribute a password file to your cluster of machines from a single master. There is no way to enforce a common quota across multiple filesystems, but it will of course work over an NFS mount. -- My personal credo: don't make the machines interdependant on each other. -Matt