there is a repo with the enterprise ipa for centos 5 available http://www.math.ias.edu/PU_IAS/RHEIPA/5.2/ or follow the instructions how to build it yourself from howtoforge http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-build-rhel-ipa-rpms-for-centos-5 On 07/03/2009 11:08 AM, Sander Snel wrote: > Why don't you have a go on free IPA, it is built on the fedora directory > server (LDAP) and has built in MIT Kerberos security, setup is a breeze, > especially compared with the Fedora Directory server with manual > kerberos setup. Why use smb if you only have linux machines in your > network? NIS is simple to setup and maintain but hard to secure. so use > some kind of ldap implementation, and your wish is reliable:ldap, > secure:kerberos and simple:webinterface = free-ipa > > http://www.freeipa.org > > succes > > Sander Snel > > On 07/03/2009 10:45 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Until now, I've only managed local user management on small network with >> no more than five or six machines, e. g. all user data stored locally on >> each and every machine (/etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group). Now I'd >> like to learn remote identity management, that is, all user data stored >> centrally on one machine (so I don't have to wonder who has which UID >> and GID when I want to setup an NFS share, for example). >> >> I understand there are several ways to achieve that with RHEL/CentOS: >> NIS, LDAP, Kerberos, SMB, ... >> >> The networks I'll have to deal with are 100% GNU/Linux (better: 100% >> CentOS). So my first question is: which solution is the "best" for such >> a configuration ? By "best" I mean some compromise between "easy" and >> "reliable". >> >> Any suggestions ? >> >> Niki Kovacs >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090703/35814275/attachment-0004.html>