On 16/10/2009 19:38, Scot Kreienkamp wrote: > Hey everyone, > > > > I apologize in advance for going slightly off topic, but I have never > setup a centralized authentication scheme under Linux. My question is, > what do most people do for centralized command line, X, and PG > authentication? From what I've read the main choices are NIS or LDAP. > LDAP would be problematic as I would have to embed a login and plain > text password in the ldap.conf file for binding to the MS AD. On the > other hand, it seems like NIS is old, inflexible, outdated, and possibly > nearing end of life. We are a largely Windows shop with many app and > database servers running Linux. The Linux environment is growing too > large not to do centralized authentication of some kind. > > > > At this point I'm open to suggestions or comments. SSH and X are > required, PG would be nice to be able to auth centrally as well while > I'm at it. Does "PG" = PostgreSQL? If so, it can do LDAP, Kerberos and PAM, among other things: [Scot Kreienkamp] But of course. :) So I guess what I see taking shape is setting up everything to auth against PAM locally, then setting up local PAM to auth to a remote source. Thanks, Scot Kreienkamp skreien@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
