Re: [dev] LDAP

2014-07-23 Thread Andrew Hills
On 7/23/14, 3:52 PM, Calvin Morrison wrote: > That's just silly. Why would you be so sucky of any admin to require > users to change passwords on 10 systems when they are all identical? > This is somewhat of a small cluster, worker nodes, a services node, a > storage node, a head node etc. Users a

Re: [dev] LDAP

2014-07-23 Thread FRIGN
On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 22:28:45 +0200 Alexander Tanyukevich wrote: > Use ldap. > It has replication mechanisms. > It has tonns of documentation and examples. > It is fast and reliable (you can setup master-master replication and > slave on every server.. so even without network it will work) ... I >

Re: [dev] LDAP

2014-07-23 Thread Alexander Tanyukevich
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Calvin Morrison wrote: > On 23 July 2014 16:06, Alexander Tanyukevich wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:21 PM, Calvin Morrison >> wrote: >>> >>> LDAP sucks, is there any good alternative for managing user logins >>> over 5-10 servers? >> >> What is wrong with

Re: [dev] LDAP

2014-07-23 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 23 July 2014 16:06, Alexander Tanyukevich wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:21 PM, Calvin Morrison > wrote: >> >> LDAP sucks, is there any good alternative for managing user logins >> over 5-10 servers? > > What is wrong with LDAP from your point of view ? > Pam has gazilion of modles, and i

Re: [dev] LDAP

2014-07-23 Thread Alexander Tanyukevich
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:21 PM, Calvin Morrison wrote: > > LDAP sucks, is there any good alternative for managing user logins > over 5-10 servers? What is wrong with LDAP from your point of view ? Pam has gazilion of modles, and it looks like it's not so hard to write your own. And use maria/pos

Re: [dev] LDAP

2014-07-23 Thread Markus Teich
Calvin Morrison wrote: > > I think passwd entries should suffice. The admin should not be responsible > > for synchronizing the users files. Maybe he is so kind and offers a network > > mount available on every server. > > That's just silly. Why would you be so sucky of any admin to require users

Re: [dev] LDAP

2014-07-23 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 23 July 2014 15:37, Markus Teich wrote: > Calvin Morrison wrote: >> I like that, but then I guess I need to propogate all changes for my >> users, like passwords and such? > > Heyho, > > I think passwd entries should suffice. The admin should not be responsible > for synchronizing the users fi

Re: [dev] LDAP

2014-07-23 Thread Andrew Hills
On 7/23/14, 3:29 PM, Dimitris Papastamos wrote: > Are these scripts somewhere publicly available? I'd like to have a > look if possible. No, but I'll clean them up a little later this week. They're really nothing special; all my machines run Linux, so it's just useradd/usermod/userdel and some fl

Re: [dev] LDAP

2014-07-23 Thread Markus Teich
Calvin Morrison wrote: > I like that, but then I guess I need to propogate all changes for my > users, like passwords and such? Heyho, I think passwd entries should suffice. The admin should not be responsible for synchronizing the users files. Maybe he is so kind and offers a network mount avail

Re: [dev] LDAP

2014-07-23 Thread Dimitris Papastamos
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 03:25:58PM -0400, Andrew Hills wrote: > On 7/23/14, 3:21 PM, Calvin Morrison wrote: > > LDAP sucks, is there any good alternative for managing user logins > > over 5-10 servers? > > I declare one server the master and manage accounts through there with > some simple scripts

Re: [dev] LDAP

2014-07-23 Thread Calvin Morrison
I like that, but then I guess I need to propogate all changes for my users, like passwords and such? On 23 July 2014 15:25, Andrew Hills wrote: > On 7/23/14, 3:21 PM, Calvin Morrison wrote: >> LDAP sucks, is there any good alternative for managing user logins >> over 5-10 servers? > > I declare o

Re: [dev] LDAP

2014-07-23 Thread Andrew Hills
On 7/23/14, 3:21 PM, Calvin Morrison wrote: > LDAP sucks, is there any good alternative for managing user logins > over 5-10 servers? I declare one server the master and manage accounts through there with some simple scripts and ssh. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[dev] LDAP

2014-07-23 Thread Calvin Morrison
LDAP sucks, is there any good alternative for managing user logins over 5-10 servers? Calvin