On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 09:07:21PM -0000, Joe PM wrote:
> I come from a windows tech background. I am having a hard time understanding Linux client / server setup as a total concept.
> Do you create useers on the server then login from a client with that id and password? Or are linux servers just for file sharing like ftp and user id's are only created on the clients?
> Thanks for any enlightenment...
It is really a case by case basis. There is no clear cut Active Directory
equivalent. One can use, however, LDAP, samba, or combinations of the two
to do something similar, where a user logs into a server, and is then given
access to various resources.
So...you can create create users on the server, for the client to use for
authentication. Even an FTP server will have users configured on the
server, and the client must authenticate against the server's user
database.
For a client to access a server, it must have a set of credentials known by
the server.
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Scott Robbins
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