Re: [clug-talk] Need Advice on Central Authentication Server

[Paul Greidanus]

I usually just run NIS for this.. not for passwords or any of that, but 
for hosts, and other things that loosing them wouldn't be a big issue.  
Also, remember that you can protect the NIS server with iptables, and 
hosts.allow to keep only approved machines allowed to connect if you 
want to be that secure..

I'm also using a setup with rdist to sync passwd and shadow files from a 
"master" to the rest of the machines using ssh and authkeys.. but that's 
not the best way, but it really works and I haven't had a chance to 
change it yet :)

Based on what I've read, I'll need LDAP and NFS (er, NFSv4).  One of the 
things I'm trying to do is to share my HOSTS file among 2 linux servers and 
my Suse workstation.  It's getting annoying to fix 2 of the 3, then have to 
troubleshoot/fix the third box - normally at some critical point in time.  I 
can handle this via rsync, but I may as well learn how to setup single sign 
on...
 

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