[SGVLUG] LDAP or NIS migration from /etc/passwd

[Claude Felizardo]

On 4/7/07, Terry Hancock <hancock at anansispaceworks.com> wrote:
> These are probably really dumb questions, but I've been trying to tease
> the answers out of the various LDAP and NIS howtos I've found, without
> much luck (they all seem to assume you know these answers already):
>
> Context:
>
> My problem is that I now have about 4-5 computers on my home LAN, each
> of which has about 5-7 user accounts. None of them match UIDs and GIDs,
> unless by sheer luck.
>
> I'm setting up a server machine to maintain backups for them all (using
> a strategy based on Mike Rubel's rsync write-up, BTW -- thanks!), and I
> don't want the UIDs and permissions to get all snared up.


I have several computers at home that the entire family uses but only
a few accounts - mine and the everyone else shares a guest account.
No one else is sharing files yet so I've been putting it off until the
kids get older.  For now, I just create my account first.

Anyway, as for the rsync backups, I've been using the package
maintained at http://www.rsnapshot.org/

There's even a link to how to backup windoze clients using cygwin

http://www.stillnetstudios.com/2006/12/09/snapshot-backups-howto/



> So...questions:

[snip]

claude