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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
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Frank Sorenson - KD7TZK
Linux Systems Engineer, DSS Engineering, UBS AG
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