K B wrote: > I am trying to find a replacement for my school's Novell servers. The goals are this: > -User accounts must be able to be limited in capacity (IE- each user gets 5MB to use) man quota > -Must be able to semi-automatically create users (feed it list of names, create username/pw from that) (command line fine, can just write scripts) man 1 passwd, specifically look at '--stdin' option that RedHat added around RH 6.x and up. you can easily script adding users and setting initial passwords this way. Mandrake most likely supports this option since they're a RH based distro. > -Be able to handle many (up to and maybe more than) 200 concurrent connections (Current limit is 200) shouldn't be an issue for linux :) > -Backups. Need to be able to do them in a timely, automatic manner. (Cron job or whatever nightly) Major plus if files can be backed up while user has file open. (Haven't found anything yet that does) automatic - cron is your friend there are a number of ways to do backups. some things to look at would include: amanda, rsync, rdiff-backup, or you could roll your own tar/gzip, dump, cpio, whatever scripts. > Could I do this off of a basic install of Mandrake 9.1? Anybody got tips, or links, on how to do this? most definitely. most things I mentioned will be installed by default, except the backup software. just google for it or check freshmeat.net -- scot _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list