Re: We need centralized accounts -- Any docs for ldap passwords?
But if you're not ready for potato then NIS will provide a ready-made solution. It's
pretty straightforward. I'd be glad to offer assistance. As for a comparison, well,
they're different. NIS has been around a long time, LDAP is newer.
Ben Collins wrote:
> 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.
>
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