best way to share user data in a computer centre?

[James Knott]

Matt Price wrote:
> -how horrible would it be, in terms of performance, to put /home on a
> networked disk?
> -how would i combine this with user authentication (googling around I
> guess OpenLDAP&  NIS are the two most common solutions, can someone
> give me advice as to which is the simplest and easiest to maintain?
> I'm not looking for tons of flexibility, just something that will
> mostly work when I'm not around)
>    
I don't have any experience with authenticating users on multiple 
computers, but putting /home on a server is easy to do.  Just mount an 
NFS share there.  However, that will cover up any existing user 
directories, so you may want to temporarily move them.
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