[nzlug] General server/client enquiry

[Daniel Pittman]

Roland Hill <rolandh at ak.planet.gen.nz> writes:
> 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.

Well, I think it is worth looking at the authentication model of
Kerberos and at how puppet/cfengine deployments approach the problem:
they represent two significantly different approaches, and they
highlight where some of the decision points are.

Likewise AFS: it probably isn't what you want at home[1], but it is
significantly different from NFS -- and it highlights a very different
method for solving the same problem.

Regards,
        Daniel

Footnotes: 
[1]  ...though I am about to deploy a trial cell myself, for a variety
     of reasons, for home use.

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