On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 10:03:09PM -0800, Justin Zygmont wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Aly Dharshi wrote: > > > > >LDAP is hands down the way to go, even Sun says that NIS+ maybe deprecated > > >in future releases, its a freaking pain in the ass. NIS+ is no being > > >actively developed for Linux, NIS+ is a good exercise in self-inflicted > > >pain (which I will have to go thru' starting 2morrow). > > > > > >Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > > >> > > >> 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. > > > > I found NIS not all that bad, considering the work involved integrating > > all your services to use LDAP, it may not be all that bad if your needs > > are simple. > > > I am still waiting for someone to explain how to get a fedora system > to authenticate using a Windows authentication server. > > Anyone know. Most if not all of the answers are in here: http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/ There is also a dead tree version available if you are so inclined. Regards, Tom Diehl tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx Spamtrap address mtd123@xxxxxxxxxxxx
