On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 14:54:53 -0500 > From: "Dustin Puryear" <[email protected]> > Subject: [brlug-general] UNIX password sync > > Hi everyone- > > We have a UNIX network of 50+ Linux servers plus a few Solaris boxes. We > need to keep user accounts and passwords synchronized. > > This would be easy enough with NIS, NIS+, LDAP, or AD, but there is a > requirement that no central directory or database be used. The solution > has to be distributed across the servers in question. > > Does anyone know of a solution, commercial or open source, that can do > this? >
[Distributed peer-to-peer authentication | decentralized trust management] is a Flying Dutchman. Search Google for it; lots of scholarly papers, no implementations. You _could_ disguise one tiny Linux box as a paperweight, make it the Kerberos master KDC, the rest of the boxes slave KDCs and sync the auth DB every so often with a cron job, but that's just silly. John -------- Brak says "Postlethwaite & Netterville! Postlethwaite & Netterville! Postlethwaite & Netterville!"
_______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
