Greetings,

I find myself managing a network full of Mac OSX machines.
What I would like to do is have a central server that holds
login information, as well as things like home directories
and such (some of the clients being diskless).

The way that I would like to do this is to have a NetBSD
box acting as NFS and authentication server. The NFS part
is trivial, the authentication server part is not because
these computers want to speak NetInfo.

So I have two possibilities: try to port, from Darwin,
the netinfo daemon or write a small daemon from scratch
that will basically expose getpwent(3)/getpwnam(3) 
via the netinfo protocol.

Before I start doing this, I wonder if anyone knows if
it has already been done (google turned up little) or
if there's a better way... Does this seem sensible?

Thanks,
-w