-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kenneth Burgener 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).
Other than the suggestions to upgrade from FC6 (which I support)... If you want something especially lightweight, you may want to look into pam-mysql, nss-mysql, or libnss-mysql (or similar projects), which keep your user info in a mysql db. Frank - -- Frank Sorenson - KD7TZK Linux Systems Engineer, DSS Engineering, UBS AG [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGVLBPaI0dwg4A47wRAoqgAKCA8T/1iD7ORsHV6CdDEq6WSYRZ8QCgrRf7 M1vZ6Yh4XekZ7g/w1TbF0+U= =mkAq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
