On 4/9/21 12:25 PM, Siva wrote:
> Can we integrate with google workspace using open ldap
> and the thing to be noted is they don't want to spend money
> Sorry to trouble you bys asking more

All the stuff I've mentioned is free software.

I don't know whether integration with google workspace works. FreeIPA
and Æ-DIR both expose LDAP end-points to use with data suitable to be
used for NSS/PAM in Linux.

But this stuff is getting highly off-topic here.

Ciao, Michael.

> On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 10:37 AM Michael Ströder <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/9/21 10:20 AM, Siva wrote:
>>> Goodmorning .I am new to ansible and also  to devops
>>> My organisation wanted me to do centralised authentication of linux
>> servers
>>> ,Vm 's ,vcenter for any employee joins the organisation and they want to
>>> integrate the same on the google workspace
>>
>> Some people will recommend to simply use modules user [1] and group [2]
>> to add user accounts to all your systems.
>>
>> While I like automation via ansible this approach has deficiencies, e.g.
>> you have to provide unique UID and GID values in the inventory and thus
>> you need a database which enforces this uniqueness.
>>
>> Off-topic:
>>
>> Some people will recommend FreeIPA and there are some IPA-specific
>> ansible modules.
>>
>> But I needed delegated administration and strict need-to-know
>> priniciple. Thus I've developed my own solution Æ-DIR (see
>> https://ae-dir.com/) which is based on OpenLDAP and has some more
>> components you need. Being the author I'm biased of course.
>>
>> On-topic again: Æ-DIR is installed with ansible [3]. :-)
>>
>> Ciao, Michael.
>>
>> [1]
>>
>> https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/user_module.html
>>
>> [2]
>>
>> https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/group_module.html
>>
>> [3] https://www.ae-dir.com/install.html
>>
> 
> 


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