Re: [gentoo-user] How to do "account management" across multiple Unix boxes?

[Joshua Schmidlkofer]

IMNSHO NIS is a big fat waste.  I would strongly recommend against. it. =)  It does simplify a number of things, and I honestly have never actually tried to make the LDAP integration work on BSD.

Kerberos is not an account management tool - it is authentication management,  I use it all the time, and even in small networks I prefer it to the 'straight' alternatives.   OpenLDAP + Kerberos is pretty hot.  I use this for my work network especially, and on my home network I use local accounts + kerberos. 

Gentoo has an LDAP howto here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ldap-howto.xml

I have a really horrible kerberos howto, but it may become less horrible in time: http://lateralis.imr-net.com/wiki/jms/Kerberos

Finally, most of where I started with all of this is here:

http://www.ofb.net/~jheiss/krbldap/