[OpenAFS] /etc/passwd mgmt

[Chris Huebsch]

Hi,

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Dj Merrill wrote:

> Benjamin P Myers wrote:
>> openldap isn't so hard to configure if you're not going to worry about some 
>> of the more advanced features like TLS, SASL, etc.

Exactly. I strongly recommend using LDAP to distribute user-info (as a
replacement for /etc/passwd).

As far as I tried it, it integrates well with Linux and Solaris.

Hesiod, NIS, etc. are not that flexible and stable.

>cfengine looks impressive - I'll have to poke at it some more.

cfengine is not the right tool to manage just one file.

It requires a lot of planning an much infrastructure.

(Although using AFS for distributing the repositories simplifies a lot.)

Chris
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