On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 07:59:56PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote: > > We've got a number of machines here that we need to switch to > centralized account maintenance, and I was trying to figure out what > the best solution would be. It looks like the two main solutions > would be NIS or ldap (via PAM), but I'm having a hard time finding out > enough about the ldap solution to do a good comparison. Is there a > good HOWTO or similar somewhere? Is there some other solution I've > overlooked. (I thought about just using a cron job and a sync script > to keep all the passwd/group files in sync, but that requires you to > be able to atomically update the files, and I couldn't see a good way > to do that...perhaps some trick with chpasswd/add/deluser...
Our good admin is already in the midst of setting up an LDAP based account system. For info on what is being used for this please see www.openldap.com and www.padl.com for the OpenLDAP and nss_ldap/pam_ldap (all three of which are packaged in potato) programs. -- ----- -- - -------- --------- ---- ------- ----- - - --- -------- Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux OpenLDAP Dev - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Choice of the GNU Generation ------ -- ----- - - ------- ------- -- ---- - -------- - --- ---- - --
