[nzlug] General server/client enquiry

[Roland Hill]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 or thereabouts, Daniel Lawson came forth with:

Hi Daniel,

>> If you are looking to learn things that are generally useful I advise
>> roughly this order of things:

>>  * learn LDAP for NSS and auth
>>  * learn Kerberos for auth (with LDAP NSS)
>>  * learn about puppet and cfengine
>>  * learn NFSv3
>>  * learn AFS

> I'd go a step further in refining this, and say do the following for your 
> first run:
>
> * learn about LDAP for NSS and auth
> * learn about NFS.
>
> And maybe look at the others later on.

Having done some light reading tonight, I agree with this approach - for
now.

<----snippage---->

> There is actually a fair bit of information on ldap for nss/auth in the 
> WLUG (and therefore, the NZLUG) wiki - but I suspect it's all woefully out 
> of date now. If the OP would like to tidy some of it up during his travels 
> I'd definitely appreciate it :)

I've started to use this tonight. So far so good. If I can contribute I
will try to. Just about to run the migration tools as discussed on the
Wiki under LDAPAuthentication.

Thanks again.

-- 
Regards,

Roland

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