Just google for tutorials on how to configure the various protocols. For example, DNS is really easy to set up. I got a number of hits looking for a tutorial to set up DNS. https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=wivrWp71OYewjwPFsZL4Cg&q=howto+tutorial+configure+dns+server+in+linux&oq=howto+tutorial+configure+dns+ser&gs_l=psy-ab.3.1.33i22i29i30k1l10.12033.20875.0.24063.32.32.0.0.0.0.542.4276.0j25j4-1j1.27.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..5.27.4238...0j0i131k1j0i10k1j0i13k1j0i13i30k1j0i22i30k1.0.GRWi_-V6IfI
-- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy Phone: 509.375.2687 Fax: 509.375.4399 Email: cathy.sm...@pnnl.gov -----Original Message----- From: plug-boun...@pdxlinux.org [mailto:plug-boun...@pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Groman Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2018 8:00 PM To: plug@pdxlinux.org Subject: Re: [PLUG] Linux centralized authentication Do you have any book or other resource recommendations for setting these up? I already do sysadmin work, just never done centralized auth before. On 05/02/2018 07:53 PM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > The easiest is to pick LDAP or NIS, both work very well on Linux. With > or without Kerberos for local small setup. > > NIS with NFS for file sharing would be probably the simplest setup, > but you will eventually wish you had LDAP for integration with various > other services. > > LDAP + Kerberos + NFS is probably the most common and extensible solution. > You will absolutely need local DNS and NTP to get it going, but it is > well integrated extensible solution. > > Another option would be to uses Samba - it combines LDAP + Kerberos, > so it has less moving parts and can accept Windows hosts without much > headache, compared to LDAP and Kerberos. > > For both solution, you might need some enterprise admin to help > setting it up. If well and simply setup, it is not difficult to maintain and > manage. > IMHO > > Tomas > > On Wed, May 2, 2018, 5:36 PM Smith, Cathy <cathy.sm...@pnnl.gov> wrote: > >> There used to be dns, ldap, kerberos, nis. These are open source >> protocols and not restricted to Microsoft. >> >> >> -- >> Cathy L. Smith >> IT Engineer >> >> Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Operated by Battelle for the >> U.S. Department of Energy >> >> Phone: 509.375.2687 >> Fax: 509.375.4399 >> Email: cathy.sm...@pnnl.gov >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: plug-boun...@pdxlinux.org [mailto:plug-boun...@pdxlinux.org] On >> Behalf Of Thomas Groman >> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2018 5:16 PM >> To: plug@pdxlinux.org >> Subject: [PLUG] Linux centralized authentication >> >> Has anyone ever made a 100% UNIX/BSD/Linux network with centralized >> authentication? Using native protocols not some sort of strange >> Microsoft AD mesh thing. >> I wanted to build a hacker-space for a school and since it would be >> starting from scratch there's no reason to get locked in to a >> Microsoft product from the start. Also the Microsoft's protocols are >> not open source and hard to debug. They never really work well with >> UNIX like operating systems requiring id/group mapping and such. >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> PLUG@pdxlinux.org >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> PLUG@pdxlinux.org >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug