On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Darod Zyree <darodzyree at gmail.com> wrote: > 2014-01-28 Laurent Wandrebeck <l.wandrebeck at quelquesmots.fr> > >> >> 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> > > > > > > Indeed, and IPA does this quite well. > > We use IPA on all servers and workstations. > > - Sudo information comes from IPA > > - Autofs information comes from IPA > > - Host based access control comes from IPA > > - Central user management/identity > i read that IPA can do multimaster. How well does it do it compared to openldap? > It all works really good. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos