[gentoo-user] How to do account management across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread matthew . garman
Is there a term for the situation where you have one computer as the user account master and every other machine recognizes all user accounts that are specified on the master? I'm sure there's plenty of packages and documentation on how to do this, but I don't know what it's called, so I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do account management across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread John Jolet
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 13:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a term for the situation where you have one computer as the user account master and every other machine recognizes all user accounts that are specified on the master? I'm sure there's plenty of packages and documentation on

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do account management across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread Shawn Singh
NIS comes to mind and some recommended docs are: http://www.linux-nis.org/nis-howto/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO.html http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_NISOn 1/11/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Wednesday 11 January 2006 13:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a term for the situation where you

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do account management across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread John Jolet
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 14:04, Shawn Singh wrote: NIS comes to mind and some recommended docs are: http://www.linux-nis.org/nis-howto/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO.html http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_NIS Please be aware of the security issues surrounding nis. may not be a problem in your

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do account management across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread Lares Moreau
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 13:57 -0600, John Jolet wrote: Given the name of a couple key packages and/or web links, I think I could figure the rest out. openldap is one way kerberos is another (don't pick this one) nis or YP is another I prefer openldap, but be warned, all of these methods are

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do account management across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I'm sure there's plenty of packages and documentation on how to do this, but I don't know what it's called, so I don't know where to start looking. You either use NIS or nowadays might use LDAP. Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do account management across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
IMNSHO NIS is a big fat waste. I would strongly recommend against. it. =) It does simplify a number of things, and I honestly have never actually tried to make the LDAP integration work on BSD.Kerberos is not an account management tool - it is authentication management, I use it all the time, and

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do account management across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
Joshua Schmidlkofer schrieb: IMNSHO NIS is a big fat waste. I would strongly recommend against. it. Why? It's simple to setup and does what the OP wanted. PS: Please no HTML mails. Please no top posts. Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list