Central Login auth on a linux network?

[Mountainman]

This is something that I have been thinking about for a while now. I have read most of the linux networking admin book, plus several others, trying to find some info on this. This is all hypothetical, but some good info if I could find it. Lets say I have a 10 puter network all running redhat 6.1 for the sake of argument. Where could I find the info to set them up so that one central computer would do all login authentication and setup permissions for that person on whatever computer that login at?

[Mountainman]

The answer to my own question, it would seem, is located in the NIS howto. I havent tried it yet, or heard anything else either way. If anyone has any personal experience, please let me know. :D

[sijis]

I was thinking about the same thing, just a bit different in the setup. I would want my linux box to authenticate all the other window puters that are on the network. question is i don't know how that could be done.
i was thinking maybe samba could do 'some' authentication, especially for file sharing (that's what its for anyways!). i could have sworn i've read a section on samba taht you can make it execute *.bat files for window puters. I'm not sure how that would work on an all linux based network.

just a thought.

have a nice day :)

sijis

[Mountainman]

Yeah, you put the bat files in a login folder and point the login scripts to that folder. Pretty sure thats how it works. I wanted to know if it could be done on an all linux network.