Re: good LDAP resources

2017-03-03 Thread briand
I have < 10 machines, and it should be < 10 machines for the forseeable future, so I think LDAP is probably too brute a force. I'll look into NIS and some of the other tools people have mentioned. Thanks very much for the help everyone ! Brian

Re: good LDAP resources

2017-02-27 Thread deloptes
Dan Ritter wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 02:16:27PM -0800, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: >> I need to set-up some sort of password server for a small network so that >> i don't have to set-up accounts on every machine. >> >> It looks like LDAP is the best way to do that. >> >> Is it ? >> >> I've

Re: good LDAP resources

2017-02-27 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 02:16:27PM -0800, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > I need to set-up some sort of password server for a small network so that i > don't have to set-up accounts on every machine. > > It looks like LDAP is the best way to do that. > > Is it ? > > I've been looking at the LDAP ho

Re: good LDAP resources

2017-02-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 02:16:27PM -0800, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > I need to set-up some sort of password server for a small network so that i > don't have to set-up accounts on every machine. > > It looks like LDAP is the best way to do that. > > Is it ? For a small network where security i

Re: good LDAP resources

2017-02-25 Thread Joshua Schaeffer
LDAP can be very difficult to learn if you are just starting out with it, but also very powerful. There may be other faster solutions then a manual setup, but I found that I learned the most by doing all of it manually. On Red Hat based systems, I believe their IPA solution is quite good. It us

good LDAP resources

2017-02-25 Thread briand
I need to set-up some sort of password server for a small network so that i don't have to set-up accounts on every machine. It looks like LDAP is the best way to do that. Is it ? I've been looking at the LDAP how-to's and even tried to turn things on using one of them, but I can't quite get th