When the date was Wednesday 03 December 2008, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 13:37:44 -0500 > > "Brian Schrock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A good simple solution is pam mysql. You just stick the users in mysql > > tables and configure pam and a few other files. In my experience ldap > > is not quite as simple as libpam-mysql. > > > > > > Brian, > > Thanks, > > I may have not been clear enough, this can be considered a small secure > system (4 computers, and although all are connected to the Internet, they > are behind the university firewall) and all the users can be considered > trusted users. The communication between the machines is going to be > private (all connected to each other, internal cluster communication > isn't visible externally), so even if not encrypted you will have to > break into the system in the first place in order to snoop.
Well, in that case, you can just name one of them as "master authentication server" and rsync(1) /etc/{passwd,shadow} to the rest. :P -- Michael Iatrou (iyyo) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]