[CentOS] centralized user authentication

Steve Glasser

sgla9347 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 25 17:04:13 UTC 2010


> Apart from ipa are there any other good tools out there for centralised user
> auth?

I am currently testing LDAP (openldap) combined with nss_ldap,
configured with authconfig.

I would start by testing IPA.  Redhat is building out a set of
enterprise management tools which include cobbler and spacewalk; I
would think IPA will eventually be integrated into their mgt tools.

That said, if you want to use Ldap + Kerberos, here are two good howtos:
http://aput.net/~jheiss/krbldap/howto.html
http://www-theorie.physik.unizh.ch/~dpotter/howto/kerberos

The "current" centos rpms for Ldap are quite old; you should consider
rebuilding the latest fedora rpms for your system.


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Steve Glasser
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