Re: [dhcwg] LDAP, NFS home directory attributes
Erik Guttman <erik.guttman@sun.com> Mon, 14 January 2002 11:51 UTC
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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:43:33 +0100
From: Erik Guttman <erik.guttman@sun.com>
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To: Jason Spence <thalakan@lightconsulting.com>
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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] LDAP, NFS home directory attributes
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Jason Spence wrote: > I was talking with somone today about the number of Freenix systems > floating around organizations and how difficult they are to manage due > to the extensive manual configuration necessary for them to use > directory services and NFS mounted directories. We came to the > conclusion that the optimal solution would be to have officially > recognized DHCP options for things like the LDAP server with > the posixAccounts for the organization and the NFS server serving the > home directories. As far as I can tell, no work has been done on > creating such attributes, but maybe one of you can prove me wrong. There has been some work on using SLP to adveritse and discover automount table entries. I can get you in contact with those involved if you would like. Erik _______________________________________________ dhcwg mailing list dhcwg@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dhcwg
- [dhcwg] LDAP, NFS home directory attributes Jason Spence
- Re: [dhcwg] LDAP, NFS home directory attributes Erik Guttman