Take a look at pam ldap cache

-nick


On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:39 AM, David Filion <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm in the process of cleaning up the users and groups on our RHEL/CentOS
> servers, the end goal being to centralize the information in an LDAP
> directory.
>
> Where I'm not sure how to proceed is where to place system accounts and
> groups.
>
> Lets take Oracle as an example.  It requires the following:
>
> - A user "oracle" w/group "oinstall".  This accounts owns the files on disk.
> - Group "dba", DBA user group
> - Group "oper", not so DBA user group
>
> What I'm unsure of is where to put them.
>
> - Do I create them on the server then have to perform local updates to the
> group members as people come and go?
>
> - Do I put them in the directory and hope it doesn't go down*.
>
> - Do I go 50/50.  Create oracle/oinstall locally but put them dba and oper
> groups in the directory.  (This seems like the winning choice.)
>
>
> *It's redundant, and shouldn't go down.  But never say never.
>
> To add more ingredients to the pot, I'm using Puppet to setup new servers
> which can, and usually does, get confused when having local and centralized
> groups.
>
> Ideas, comments?
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