[CentOS] LDAP Authentication and Authorisation.

Tue Dec 2 15:07:24 UTC 2008
Friedrich Clausen <fred at derf.nl>

Hi,

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Russell Miller <duskglow at gmail.com> wrote:
> Friedrich Clausen wrote:
>> Does anyone have any real world, in the trenches experience they would
>> be willing to share? I would like to know which is the most
>> maintainable and easy to hand-over to more junior admins.
>>
> The way we did this was, we have an access.conf file that is
> automatically copied to every machine via a cron job.  To give a
> netgroup access, you just make the change to the file in subversion, and
> it's automatically propagated a few minutes later.

Thanks for the info. I plan to distribute those types of configuration
files through Puppet - that is if Puppet proves usable in our
environment but it looks great so far.

Cheers,

Fred.