[OpenAFS] /etc/passwd mgmt

[Benjamin P Myers]

On Thursday 10 March 2005 12:10 am, Dj Merrill wrote:
>         I've considered NIS, but don't really care for it, and
> LDAP might have some possbibilities, but we don't want to delve into
> its depths at this time.  Distributing the /etc/passwd text file
> would seem to be the preferred method at present, but I am
> open to other suggestions.
>
>         What is everyone using to manage such things?

openldap isn't so hard to configure if you're not going to worry about so=
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the more advanced features like TLS, SASL, etc.  Long run, it might be be=
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for you to go that route because you can use it to backend kerberos and f=
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dns--it could simplify things for you later at the cost of a little extra=
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work now.  If you're wanting to distribute /etc/passwd, take a look at=20
cfengine (www.cfengine.org) or you can use rsync.

Come to think of it, I wonder if it would be good choice for some of the =
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ptserver/vlserver stuff--acls, kerberos support, referrals--but then I do=
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know all of what'd be involved.  An idea.  Throwing it out there.

Cheers,
Ben