Re: Centralised user accounts and laptops

On 30/05/2007 15:17, Geoffrey Clements wrote:

Using syncrepl it looks like you can set up a filter expression, so you could have an attribute set to show which laptops a user can use stored in the remote database, then when the laptop is switched on and its slapd starts it only needs to download those users with the apropriate attribute.

that looks interesting

I can't see holding the authentication in a LDAP database being any more dangerous than having data in passwd/shadow files

no, but you don't normally let each member of staff take home a domain controller each night to play with l0phtcrack :-)
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