Unix administration - user accounts in a global environment

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user accounts in a global environment

Randal Kornelsen

2007-02-15, 1:27 am

Hello,

I am interested in your strategy for handling engineer user accounts when
the engineer needs to log in to resources in a variety of locals in a global
environment for performance reasons. The engineers home directory and
normal environment is local to where the engineer is sitting. It is a Unix
environment.

Do you use WAN acceleration?
Do you have multiple home directories and mess with auto-mount depending on
where they log in?
What do you do and how do you manage it?

Thanks.

Doug Freyburger

2007-02-15, 1:19 pm

"Randal Kornelsen" <rkornel...@extremenetworks.com> wrote:
>
> I am interested in your strategy for handling engineer user accounts when
> the engineer needs to log in to resources in a variety of locals in a global
> environment for performance reasons. The engineers home directory and
> normal environment is local to where the engineer is sitting. It is a Unix
> environment.
>
> Do you use WAN acceleration?

Cisco NFS caching box or competing brand.

> Do you have multiple home directories and mess with auto-mount depending on
> where they log in?

Consider AFS which supports local caching of remote directory trees
and
backline resync to the original.