Ubuntu Questions

[thatotherdude24]

I am just getting in Ubuntu pretty heavy and so far very much so enjoying it. I have a few questions:

1. I am very familiar with Microsoft's Active Directory. Is there anything similar for Ubuntu where I can connect several computers to a server and control policies and user accounts for all of them?

2. Where do I go on a Ubuntu machine to manage policies for that machine? Such as requiring users to enter user names and passwords instead a list of users, password complexity and which groups users are apart of. Pretty much control the local policy of the machine.


Thank you everybody for all the help, I have learned a ton from this forum.

[mastablasta]

I am just getting in Ubuntu pretty heavy and so far very much so enjoying it. I have a few questions:

1. I am very familiar with Microsoft's Active Directory. Is there anything similar for Ubuntu where I can connect several computers to a server and control policies and user accounts for all of them?

LDAP or samba4 or some dedicated server distros have it.

2. Where do I go on a Ubuntu machine to manage policies for that machine? Such as requiring users to enter user names and passwords instead a list of users, password complexity and which groups users are apart of. Pretty much control the local policy of the machine.

i don't know where this is in Unity as i use Kubutnu. but you can do it via command line. have a loot at :
file permisisons: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FilePermissions
man chown: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/...1/chown.1.html


if you type

man chown

you will get manual page for chown in terminal
commands you are after are chown, chmod... they are in the first link in the end.

otherwise i htink you can change this with nautiuls (file manager) if you run it as admin.

also have a look here on how to manage users on server: https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/server...anagement.html
also have a look here: http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_P...Administration

and if you want a GUI : http://askubuntu.com/questions/66718...ers-and-groups