CentOS - Mar 2010 - centralised user authentication

Apart from ipa are there any other good tools out there for centralised user
auth?

thanks
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On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Tom Brown <tom at ng23.net>
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> Apart from ipa are there any other good tools out there for centralised
user
> auth?
>
> thanks
>
> _______________________________________________

LDAP?
MySQL based authentication, depending on how / where you want to apply it
AD ?


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> Apart from ipa are there any other good tools out there for centralised
user
> auth?
I am currently testing LDAP (openldap) combined with nss_ldap,
configured with authconfig.

It works and the nice thing is that you can have consistent
authentication at OS and application level (apache, PHP, java, etc.).
Combined with NFS mounted home directories, it also gives you
consistent uids across the hosts.

However I am still evaluating the security implications of the bind
process: if the access rights are too restrictive in openldap it
doesn't work. It depends if everything will run in the same LAN or if
you need external access. Then you probably need to go the client
certificate route + SSL/TLS, which is not trivial to deploy (but works
as well).

If you go this way, I can share some of my findings in more details.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Information_Service

it used to be called "yp" or "yellow pages".
it works with samba too.

jobst


On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 03:17:04PM +0000, Tom Brown (tom at ng23.net)
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> Apart from ipa are there any other good tools out there for centralised
user
> auth?
> 
> thanks
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