<html><head><style type='text/css'>body { font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000}</style></head><body><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Eric B." <ebenze@hotmail.com><br>To: centos@centos.org<br>Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:58:15 AM (GMT+1000) Australia/Brisbane<br>Subject: [CentOS] Re: A good primer to User Administration?<br><br>"Shibu C Varughese" <shibucv@itmission.org> wrote <br>in message news:4739E414.4060504@itmission.org...<br>>> My question is the following. I've been searching online for a good <br>>> reference to describe good practices when building a linux network, but <br>>> haven't really been able to find much when it comes to best practices for <br>>> user administration, ACLs, "optimal" (or recommended) file locations, <br>>> etc. For example, I know I need an LDAP server, but not sure how that <br>>> ties into system login, or how to use a Linux LDAP server as the basis <br>>> for a primary domain controller (is it still called that given Windows AD <br>>> world?), etc. Or even how to properly create group structures and ACLs <br>>> that accurately reflect group ownership/etc. The octal permissions at <br>>> the file level are only good enough for a single group; I need to give <br>>> multiple groups different permissions on the same files, etc.<br>>><br>>> I realize that there are a lot of questions that I need to research, but <br>>> I was hoping someone could point me in the direction of some advanced <br>>> admin docs with best practices, etc. Most of the stuff I find relates on <br>>> how to set up a basic standalone PC, without any reference to how to <br>>> network together a bunch of servers running off central authentication, <br>>> etc...<br>>><br>><br>> Eric,<br>><br>> if you are thinking of setting up ldap, email, address book ...etc.. all <br>> in one go ... then you need to test out ...something like zimbra from <br>> zimbra.com<br>><br><br><br>Thanks for the input; I have already looked at Zimbra, and it looks like a <br>very interesting soln for me once I have everything else set up. I see <br>Zimbra as a nice group-ware pkg, but not as something to help me with <br>user-authentication to the server (for shell access), setting up file <br>permissions, shares, SMB permissions/shares, etc, etc, etc.<br><br>Tx!<br><br>Eric<br><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>CentOS mailing list<br>CentOS@centos.org<br>http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos<br><br>-- <br>This message has been scanned for viruses and<br>dangerous content by MailScanner, and is<br>believed to be clean.<br><br><br>I'll vote for zimbra too, has been brilliant for me. It is sort of appliance like in that you typically don't need to do much to a server to turn it into a working system. Mine runs as a Xen VM and I'll soon (5.1) be clustering it.<br><br><br>As far as tutorials go, I found that http://howtoforge.com/ is an excellent source of such types of articles.<br><br><br>Cheers.<br></body><br />--
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