Michael L Torrie wrote:
Actually, LDAP really is your *only* option, sorry (or just bite the bullet and install Win 2003 Server and Active Directory :). NIS probably won't be quite what you need. Bite the bullet and learn it; looks good on the resume too. If you combine it with Kerberos, then your unix machines can have secure logins (via kerberos) and common passwd stuff via LDAP. OpenLDAP, well, sucks to be honest. The developers are egotistical and somewhat arrogant (how dare you run OpenLDAP without being a Berkeley DB expert!). But it works. Another good choice is the Fedora Directory Server.
I have used OpenLDAP before as a backend for my Samba server. It wasn't very much fun at all. OpenLDAP seems to be the defacto standard, but I have never heard anyone say anything nice about it.
You mentioned Fedora Directory Server... Is it easier to manage? Is it painful to install and use on other distros? Are there any other Free ldap directory servers that are decent?
Apple's OpenDirectory sounds great, but I don't have an OSX Server, and don't plan on getting one anytime soon.
I am in the same boat as Kenneth, I want small centralized authentication, with low overhead. For now I have been using rdist to copy passwd and shadow files to all my servers. :/
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