On 5/23/07, Kenneth Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Maybe someone could point me in the right direction. I have several Linux servers, and maintaining users and passwords individually across all of them is getting to be painful. So I am hoping to find a "Linux password server" option that I can manage all users and passwords from. Google didn't appear to be much help, and kept pointing me to using Samba (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=linux+password+server). I have heard there are several security issues with the Windows authentication, and it seems overkill to use a Windows based authentication scheme in a pure Linux environment. Is there a simple, secure and lightweight Linux way of doing this (and by lightweight I mean staying away from LDAP overkill as well). Any suggestions? If it helps, all of the servers are running Fedora Core 5 (64bit). Thanks, Kenneth /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
WARNING - to some this might appear as an evil suggestion Not free, but there is always Novell's Identity Manager. Works really well for managing and syncing all kinds of things. From Linux servers to netware to windows to VoIP phones to whatever you write a driver for. All of its conditional based etc... I attended a boot camp for it and was impressed. All of it runs on Linux just fine. Just a thought... not professing a religion here or anything. Stephen PS. Let the flame wars begin /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
