Quote Originally Posted by Nic MFP
About networking under Linux: is there anything like the "domain" under Windows NT/2K? That is, a centralized authority that can authenticate users who log on at any workstation all around the network, without the need of defining (and keeping synchronized) every account on every workstation?
yes. install samba and its associated pam modules. Then you can use the NT/W2K for authentication. Technically speaking, you are telling each workstation that instead of using the /etc/passwd for authentication, use the samba module which would query the NT domain controller(or may be AD too in 3.x).