On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:12 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I currently have a commercial tool that does root password management and > am looking for other options (the maintinance price of this tool is in the > 6-digits per year) > > the tool reaches out and changes the root passwords on the systems, and > then has an sudited request/approve/release process for giving out the > root password as needed (an then changing it afterwords) > > we use this for cases where our normal access methods (including sudo type > things) don't work, so I'm not interested (at this time) in discussions on > those types of tools, just tools that can change the root passwords > periodicly and then release them to the sysadmins as needed. > > I know that thre are at least three companies doing commercial tools that > do this > > Symark (Power Keeper) > Quest > and I'm forgetting the name of the third company (Symark's Power Keeper > started off as a re-branding of this other company and now the codebase > has forked) > > any suggestions (including open source options)? > > David Lang
David, If you look at this a small part of a larger opportunity, you might give CFengine3 a look - the management of ID & certs is an important part of its operation. You can start off free, and go pro if you deploy. this isn't exactly a GUI app - fair warning,... err a promise (ever heard of Promise Theory?) http://www.cfengine.org/ Ed _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
