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Correction: The first official distro internally was "grhat." It was born out of need. We used LDAP+kerberos for auth and our homedirs mounted on first login.

Correction: The first official distro internally was "grhat." It was born out of need. We used LDAP+kerberos for auth and our homedirs mounted on first login. This had all kinds of fun problems (looking at you, nscd!) but worked well enough most of the time. Goobuntu came a couple years later. In the in between, lots of people ran their own installed version and we worked together to get things working (even Slackware).

temp0826 4y ago
>> LDAP+kerberos for auth and our homedirs mounted on first login My first "real" job as a sysadmin had this kind of setup, albeit with Sun servers and workstations running Solaris 8. I was impressed by how well it actually worked most of the time given all the quirkiness of kerberos/nfs/nsc/etc..
- bryan_w 4y ago
  My first job at University was dealing with this type of setup (Solaris workstations) except we weren't dealing with LDAP, Kerberos, and NFS, but rather AD and Microsoft DFS. It did NOT go that well, but was a good learning experience.
- dekhn 4y ago
  I've used kerberos + some auth (actually AD in addition to LDAP) and automounted home (and data dirs) a number of times (various clusters, departmental servers, corps). I'd say it was fairly mature (the OS stack supported it, it didn't crash all the time, etc) but still had (and has) sharp edges when it comes to high throughput computing.
- buildbot 4y ago
  Same, though much newer! UW CSE did the same when I worked there as a help desk tech, student directories mounted on login to the machines. IIRC, it was just a samba share linked into kerberos auth somehow.
V-eHGsd_ 4y ago
> This had all kinds of fun problems (looking at you, nscd!) "can someone telnet to 10200 on my box to reset nscd!?"