I'm needing to set some passwords for a couple dozen servers and a
whole bunch of clients(1000+). And I was wondering what the best way to
go about it is. How do you guys/gals go about creating passwords for
servers, do you use the same for each service, like do you use the same
password for mysql as you do for the machine? do you just come up with
the passwords? or do you use a password generator?
on linux boxes that i manage i use ldap for the storage of users and
passwords...then i setup pam to use ldap for the authentication methods i employ.
http://www.padl.com/OSS/pam_ldap.html
http://quark.humbug.org.au/publications/ldap/system_auth/sage-au/system_auth.html
with pam you can use a bunch of different storage methods...for example i have
setup dovecot and postix to use pgsql and mysql for the users. you could set
that up too (unix/linux/mac boxes...not on windows).
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thebigdog
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