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Re: good LDAP resources

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Dan Ritter wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 02:16:27PM -0800, briand@aracnet.com wrote:
>> I need to set-up some sort of password server for a small network so that
>> i don't have to set-up accounts on every machine.
>> 
>> It looks like LDAP is the best way to do that.
>> 
>> Is it ?
>> 
>> I've been looking at the LDAP how-to's and even tried to turn things on
>> using one of them, but I can't quite get things working.
>> 
>> Can someone point me to a good resource as to how to make it work ?
> 
> Depends on how small. I would say there is no particular payoff
> for LDAP until you get to somewhere between 10 and 100 machines,
> depending on what your userbase looks like.
> 
> For example: if you use puppet, chef, ansible or any of the
> other configuration management tools, it's easy to distribute
> users with that, and you get to distribute /etc/sudoers and
> other things as well.
> 
> If you need instant password changes across a fleet of machines,
> though, or you have a lot of people who all want to change their
> passwords regularly, LDAP is the way to go. Remember that nearly
> everything will be dependent on LDAP, so you need to have a
> minimum of three physical machines to serve it from.
> 
> http://techpubs.spinlocksolutions.com/dklar/ldap.html might
> help you out.
> 
> -dsr-

This is also a good article
http://www.spencerstirling.com/computergeek/mysqluser.html

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good LDAP resources <briand@aracnet.com> - 2017-02-25 23:30 +0100
  Re: good LDAP resources Joshua Schaeffer <jschaeffer0922@gmail.com> - 2017-02-26 00:20 +0100
  Re: good LDAP resources Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-02-27 14:10 +0100
  Re: good LDAP resources Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-02-27 15:50 +0100
    Re: good LDAP resources deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-02-27 19:00 +0100
      Re: good LDAP resources <briand@aracnet.com> - 2017-03-04 09:00 +0100

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