So I need some opinions on which way to go, for my home network I am running almost all linux, and I am starting to want to manage all of the users accounts, uid/gids for all of the devices some of which are laptops...so what is the best path going forward, on the server end I am running Centos5.5 and will be moving to centos 6 once it is released...the laptops and desktops run various flavors of Ubuntu/Fedora..Thanks in advanced, if there are any questions let me know....
On 17/12/10 16:55, Tom Bishop wrote:
So I need some opinions on which way to go, for my home network I am running almost all linux, and I am starting to want to manage all of the users accounts, uid/gids for all of the devices some of which are laptops...so what is the best path going forward, on the server end I am running Centos5.5 and will be moving to centos 6 once it is released...the laptops and desktops run various flavors of Ubuntu/Fedora..Thanks in advanced, if there are any questions let me know....
Install the centos-ds suite. That'll give you a great directory server, accessible via LDAP. Then you can consider to setup a kerberos server as well, where you can easily do single sign-on between your hosts as well.
centos-ds is the rebranded Red Hat Directory server, also available in Fedora as 389 Directory Server. So the docs for setting up and administering it shouldn't be too far away.
kind regards,
David Sommerseht
On 12/17/10 11:27 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:
On 17/12/10 16:55, Tom Bishop wrote:
So I need some opinions on which way to go, for my home network I am running almost all linux, and I am starting to want to manage all of the users accounts, uid/gids for all of the devices some of which are laptops...so what is the best path going forward, on the server end I am running Centos5.5 and will be moving to centos 6 once it is released...the laptops and desktops run various flavors of Ubuntu/Fedora..Thanks in advanced, if there are any questions let me know....
Install the centos-ds suite. That'll give you a great directory server, accessible via LDAP. Then you can consider to setup a kerberos server as well, where you can easily do single sign-on between your hosts as well.
centos-ds is the rebranded Red Hat Directory server, also available in Fedora as 389 Directory Server. So the docs for setting up and administering it shouldn't be too far away.
Does anyone know if the LDAP service that works out of the box on ClearOS can be easily used for authentication by other OS versions? If so, installing one of those (which also gives you email, samba, and a bunch of other services) would make it painless because it includes a very nice ajax-y web interface to manage everything.
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:27 PM, David Sommerseth dazo@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
Install the centos-ds suite. That'll give you a great directory server, accessible via LDAP. Then you can consider to setup a kerberos server as well, where you can easily do single sign-on between your hosts as well.
centos-ds is the rebranded Red Hat Directory server, also available in Fedora as 389 Directory Server. So the docs for setting up and administering it shouldn't be too far away.
I second this. It's easy to configure and works great. I'm running it on my network.
On 12/17/2010 07:55 AM, Tom Bishop wrote:
So I need some opinions on which way to go, for my home network I am running almost all linux, and I am starting to want to manage all of the users accounts, uid/gids for all of the devices some of which are laptops...so what is the best path going forward, on the server end I am running Centos5.5 and will be moving to centos 6 once it is released...the laptops and desktops run various flavors of Ubuntu/Fedora..Thanks in advanced, if there are any questions let me know....
http://freeipa.org/page/Main_Page
Packages are available for current Fedora releases, so you'll probably be best off waiting for CentOS 6.
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