the way I do it is have /home an nfs share.  This keeps everyone with
the same home directory.  Only issue I have seen is that some
applications dont like to share there ~<user>/.<directory> so you
sometimes have to log out on one machine before you log in on another.

As for /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group, /etc/hosts etc... you will
want to use nis+ for that.  This lets you share parts of files with
other hosts.

Hope this points you in the right direction.  time to rtfm from here.

Bill


On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 12:39, Carl Parrish wrote:
> If I want two computers to share the same user information would I just
> blow away the /usr partition by mounting a nfs partition named /usr ?
> what about /etc/passwd and /etc/group ? Do you usally just copy them
> over or link them somehow? I suspect many of these questions would
> proably be easier if I just did it then saw what happened (burning
> complete backups now) but I thought I'd ask around first (and at least
> *feel* safer) <g>
> 
> Carl Parrish
> 
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