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Re: slightly off-topic: Central Auth

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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 other hand, it seems like NIS is old, inflexible, outdated, and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


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