Matt Garman <matthew.garman at gmail.com> a écrit : > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Sorin Srbu <Sorin.Srbu at orgfarm.uu.se> wrote: >> The only thing I'm trying to accomplish is a system which will allow me to >> keep user accounts and passwords in one place, with one place only to >> administrate. NIS seems to be able to do that. >> >> Comments and insights are much appreciated! > > A related question: is NIS or LDAP (or something else entirely) better > if the machines are not uniform in their login configuration? > > That is, we have an ever-growing list of special cases. UserA can > login to servers 1, 2 and 3. UserB can log in to servers 3, 4, and 5. > Nobody except UserC can login to server 6. UserD can login to > machines 2--6. And so on and so forth. > > I currently have a custom script with a substantial configuration file > for checking that the actual machines are configured as per our > intent. It would be nice if there was a single tool where the > configuration and management/auditing could be rolled into one. > > Thanks! > Matt You’d be fine with IPA which allows you to create such rules. HTH, Laurent.