Once again I turn to the smart folks on this list. I'm looking for
a way to centralize our user management. At the moment I have user
logins that are scattered across several machines. Ideally I want to
have one central "accounts" machine, where all the user LOGIN data is
kept and maintained. Then I would have a shell server, where their
actual files are kept. Users then connect to this shell server only
(which then authenticates the user against the "accounts" machine before
letting them on.) I will also have a web server and mail spool server
which will have NFS shares, and all of these will have to have some
record of the user information (UID/GID at the very least) for things to
work properly. That data should be coming from the central "accounts"
machine I would think.
I heard that NIS+ can do what I want to do. At the same time, I
also heard LDAP may be what I want. So which is which? What should I
consider using? Considering that neither is something I've played with
extensively (I've done some NIS+ stuff eons ago, but never LDAP) this
would be a first for me and having to figure things out from the ground up.
What does the general public recommend? And any
pointers/suggestions you might have are also welcome.
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