Fedora directory users - Dec 2006 - Fedora Directory Server as OS authentication

Hi all

 

I have been testing the Fedora Directory server as central authentication for
Redhat server environment, it works ok with the authentication but I need to
know if there is any other way of managing users centrally and then with tool
that can also manage access rights to the clients as well.

 

Or is there maybe a simple way of using FDS in co-op with access rights program
like SUDO ..or other ?.. or is using FDS not the recommended way to go here ?

 

Please comment on this and give me suggestions I sure don''t want to
invent the wheel all over again!!

 

Regards

Siggi

On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 16:20 +0000, Sigurður Bjarnason wrote:
> Or is there maybe a simple way of using FDS in co-op with access
> rights program like SUDO ..or other ?.. or is using FDS not the
> recommended way to go here ?
You can populate your directory with netgroup information which sudo can
use.

-Steve

On Monday 18 December 2006 18:20, Sigurður Bjarnason
wrote:
> Hi all
Hi
>
> I have been testing the Fedora Directory server as central authentication
> for Redhat server environment, it works ok with the authentication but I
> need to know if there is any other way of managing users centrally and then
> with tool that can also manage access rights to the clients as well.
>
> Or is there maybe a simple way of using FDS in co-op with access rights
> program like SUDO ..or other ?.. or is using FDS not the recommended way to
> go here ?
You can control sudo rights from FDS, you just need sudo schema, sudo entries 
to the FDS and sudo that supports LDAP for rule storage.

I took sudo from Fedora Core 4, enabled the LDAP support and re-compiled, it 
works fine. My sudo is sudo-1.6.8p8-2.4.i686.rpm.

My servers are RHEL4ES.

Best Regards
Kimmo Koivisto