On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 19:39 -0500, israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu wrote: > Thanks Craig for your soon answer.. I've now the FDS up and running... > I am now creating my users in FDS because I want to unify the > authentication of my 3 centos servers. BUT, When I create my users in > FDS I don't see any option of UID, GID, home directory, etc, so the FDS > server return an error and my remote users can't authenticate....... > > my question is? > > 1. Can I use FDS to authenticate remote linux users? I mean create in > FDS a user with UID, GID, home directory. ---- yes - if you are using Fedora 'console' application, it should be fairly obvious how to set these up. ---- > > 2. Can I set up another server with authconfig (Use LDAP > Authentication) pointing to my FDS? ---- yes but users will still need a home directory (perhaps nfs or automount) ---- > 2. Does FDS do exactly the same of openldap? ---- yes - but both require authconfig to properly set up pam and both require proper configuration of /etc/ldap and /etc/nsswitch ---- > > 3. Does anybody knows any way to migrate all users from /etc/passwd to > FDS? (I know openldap does) ---- same tools...padl migration scripts that are actually packaged by redhat as part of openldap-server... yum install openldap-server ls -l /usr/share/openldap/migration ---- > > 4. Is FDS better than Openldap? ---- different ---- > > PD: I just want set up a LDAP server to my network to unify all my > servers. ---- makes sense Craig