Re: best way to remotely manage user credentials

["Wojciech Ziniewicz" <wojciech.ziniewicz@gmail.com>]

2008/5/13 Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr>:
>  There's more easy way than writing it with a bash script. Use NSSMySQL
>  and write a small php/python/ruby/perl/whatever-you-like web application
>  for your users to change the password stored in MySQL. The other
>  advantage is that it's going to be damned easy to reuse this with
>  network, and to do backups. You can encrypt the MySQL connection if you
>  wish to prevent sniffing.

I tried nss-mysql with no success.

i have to store and use information that is exactly the same as normal
ordinary pam . what did not work with nss-mysql was su and passwd
(users HAVE to use passwd on those systems )

probably i will write something like master server with mysql database
that will be bash-style replicated on other servers.


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Wojciech Ziniewicz
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