On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 at 18:29, Art Fernand wrote: > Need your advise. I'm looking for either commercial or open-source > software on linux that centralizes account/password authentication > across multiple platforms and OS (MS, linux, AIX, etc.). I sifted > through the plug list archives and saw some of you folks have been > working on OpenLDAP but it seems to be a work in progress.
I wouldn't call the setup I have truly centralized, but I have OpenLDAP with the password database up and running, and then Samba which uses its own smbpasswd for Windows workstations in the network. Most distributions come with libpam-ldap and libnss-ldap, which you just "plug and play". You actually don't need libpam-ldap, just libnss-ldap, then modify your /etc/nsswitch.conf so that you use ldap for passwd, group and shadow. Now that I've done it, it's an easy process. But starting up was tricky, to say the least, and I had to shed some hair to get things working. --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator :: The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key: <http://jijo.leathercollection.ph/jijo.gpg> _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
