Fedora Users — Re: manager sudo file

That you for your suggestions. I didn't know I could use NIS for sudo, had never thought of it. Most of the sites I support use NIS while others use local accounts. I would like to LDAP but it left a bad taste the last time I used it, HP-UX 10.20 and LDAP to NIS gateways don't work very well, at least they didn't 3 years ago.

Have any advice for using LDAP to manage sudo (privileged) access?

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 03/15/2010 04:04 PM, Tom H wrote:
>>> Rather than create different /etc/sudoers for each box, can't you use
>>> a name service (with>1500 boxes you must already have one running)
>>> and set up netgroups for users, commands, boxes, and auths?
>
>> Yes, name service (DNS) is running but not supported by my department.
>> This infrastructure has grown into what it is now for long time. I am
>> trying to straighten it out.
>
> By "name service," I meant NIS, NIS+, LDAP.

I second that. You have to join the 21st century sometime. LDAP is
a good choice AND you can manage the sudo file from it as well (a thing
I've found VERY useful).

NIS was invented by Sun, NIS+ expanded upon it. Almost all Unixish
systems will support NIS/NIS+. Most will support LDAP (Solaris, Linux,
FreeBSD, HP/UX for sure).
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