CentOS - Dec 2010 - Opinions wanted...user management options....Home network

So I need some opinions on which way to go, for my home network I am running
almost all linux, and I am starting to want to manage all of the users
accounts, uid/gids for all of the devices some of which are laptops...so
what is the best path going forward, on the server end I am running
Centos5.5 and will be moving to centos 6 once it is released...the laptops
and desktops run various flavors of Ubuntu/Fedora..Thanks in advanced, if
there are any questions let me know....
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On 17/12/10 16:55, Tom Bishop wrote:
> So I need some opinions on which way to go, for my home network I am
> running almost all linux, and I am starting to want to manage all of the
> users accounts, uid/gids for all of the devices some of which are
> laptops...so what is the best path going forward, on the server end I am
> running Centos5.5 and will be moving to centos 6 once it is
> released...the laptops and desktops run various flavors of
> Ubuntu/Fedora..Thanks in advanced, if there are any questions let me
> know....
Install the centos-ds suite.  That'll give you a great directory server,
accessible via LDAP.  Then you can consider to setup a kerberos server
as well, where you can easily do single sign-on between your hosts as well.

centos-ds is the rebranded Red Hat Directory server, also available in
Fedora as 389 Directory Server.  So the docs for setting up and
administering it shouldn't be too far away.


kind regards,

David Sommerseht

On 12/17/2010 07:55 AM, Tom Bishop wrote:
> So I need some opinions on which way to go, for my home network I am 
> running almost all linux, and I am starting to want to manage all of 
> the users accounts, uid/gids for all of the devices some of which are 
> laptops...so what is the best path going forward, on the server end I 
> am running Centos5.5 and will be moving to centos 6 once it is 
> released...the laptops and desktops run various flavors of 
> Ubuntu/Fedora..Thanks in advanced, if there are any questions let me 
> know....
http://freeipa.org/page/Main_Page

Packages are available for current Fedora releases, so you'll probably 
be best off waiting for CentOS 6.