NIS question

all

I have to setup for a customer, in a lab environment first....... the
following

4 servers

1-NIS master
1-NIS slave
2-NIS clients for testing

6 individual NIS domain user accounts
all belong to the same group
all able to have their respective 'home' directories with read/write
capability in same.

on the two clients do I need to create a local account for them to login
graphically and use Xwindows or will the NIS account allow that ?

many thanks for any tips....

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"Rich" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote

> on the two clients do I need to create a local account for them to login
> graphically and use Xwindows or will the NIS account allow that ?

No, the NIS will do that - but it only really makes sense if the home
directories are on a server and mounted remotely on the workstations.
Then people can move around and have the same environment. You still
get into trouble with applications, which might not all be installed
on the workstations.

My solution was:
* make sure all workstations are from the same distro
* keep /home on a server, and nfs mount it on the workstations
* keep /usr/local and /opt on a server, ditto.