



> Matthew Fillpot <mfilpot@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Niki Kovacs <info@microlinux.fr> wrote:
> 
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I'd like to contribute a HOWTO about centralized authentication using 
> NIS
> > and NFS. My own documentation in French already exists, so I guess 
> I'll
> > start by translating that into english. Before doing that, I wonder 
> about
> > the choice of title for this HOWTO. Here's a few possibilities:
> >
> > - Roaming user profiles
> > - Centralized authentication
> > - NIS+NFS
> >
> > What title and/or namespace would you suggest?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Niki
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> 
> All of your documents should be in the howtos namespace.
> 
> As for the contents of the article, I think it should be broken into
> separate articles to allow for expansion and modular use.
> Below are my recommendations and questions.
> 
> 1. Namespace - howto:centralized_authentication_NIS
>    Title - Centralized Authentication with NIS
>    Contents - Explain how to setup an NIS server for centralized
> authentication
>    Tags - howto software nis security authentication network_services
> 
> 2. Namespace - howto:nfs_shared_directories
>     Title - Shared Directories with NFS
>     Contents - Explain how to setup and NFS server and secure the server
>     Tags - howto software nfs security shared_directories network_shares
> filesystem network_services
>     **Question***  - Can this document be combined with
> http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:home_nfs_howto or refer to that 
> document
> to centralize information?
> 
> 3. Namespace - howto:roaming_profiles
>    Title - Roaming Profiles with NIS and NFS
>    Contents - Try to refer to the other documents as the base and 
> instruct
> the user to combine the efforts with the middle steps to accomplish the 
> task
>    Tags - howto software nfs nis roaming_profiles network_services
> 
> These are only my recommendations, but I think that structure would work
> best for future additions and the tags will make the articles easily 
> found
> and referenced by other articles.
> 
> -- 
> -Thank You,
> -Matthew Fillpot
> 
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> 
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I compiled ( cannot claim wrote as it was mostly a a cut and paste job) the  http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:home_nfs_howto page.

Feel free to trash it for something better.

Regards,

David Allen
