On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Calvin Morrison <[email protected]> wrote: > On 23 July 2014 16:06, Alexander Tanyukevich <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:21 PM, Calvin Morrison <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> LDAP sucks, is there any good alternative for managing user logins >>> over 5-10 servers? >> >> What is wrong with LDAP from your point of view ? >> Pam has gazilion of modles, and it looks like it's not so hard to >> write your own. And use maria/postgres/another server's shadow >> file/facebook/pop3/xmpp server as a backend to store >> users/passwords/uids/homedirs etc > > NFS for users data, but all the login data i want to be synced across > the servers. I want users to be able to it themselves > > LDAP is overly complicated, overly suckly, and less reliable than > using the native login tools of our linux systems. > > recently i have been experimenting with using json over ruby compiled > on Node.JS as our login manajer though /s >
Use ldap. It has replication mechanisms. It has tonns of documentation and examples. It is fast and reliable (you can setup master-master replication and slave on every server.. so even without network it will work) ... I don't know better solution. -- Alexander Tanyukevich [email protected]
