Alan McKay wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> What is the best way to manage users across multiple CentOS boxes?
>
> Ideally what I'd like to be able to do is have central control over
> who has access to which box from a minute-to-minute basis. e.g. User
> X needs access to Box A for 30 minutes - clickity,
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote:
[...]
> The problem with relying on documentation, even great documentation,
> is that it puts the responsibility on the admin to follow. Now we all
> know of the bad admins that can't follow directions, but in my
> experience, the culprit is often
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Alan McKay wrote:
[snip]
> And yes, I document everything very well! My motto is "If you aren't
> spending 5% to 10% of your time documenting what you do, then neither
> you nor your manager are doing their job"
These are words to live and die by :D
I also agree
Alan McKay wrote:
>> Ever since I have actively worked to get LDAP out of my systems. Don't
>> need single sign on, don't care. Haven't used that particular piece
>> of wiki software either since, the data is trapped in a zope database.
>
> OK, I definitely do NOT need single-sign-on, if if it wou
> Ever since I have actively worked to get LDAP out of my systems. Don't
> need single sign on, don't care. Haven't used that particular piece
> of wiki software either since, the data is trapped in a zope database.
OK, I definitely do NOT need single-sign-on, if if it would be cool.
I just need
> I too have experienced this PAIN!!!
> However I never quite got it done, always seemed real close but not quite.
> Did you document??
This is sadly a pretty major area where open source falls down way,
way too often. I'd far sooner go with the 2nd best solution that has
really good documentati
Rob Kampen wrote:
> m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>>> OK, google comes up with what looks like some easy HOWTOs for LDAP
>>>
>>> I'll dig in and come back with questions as required
>>>
>> Don't believe it.
>> spare), I got it in. openLDAP's docs were *way* insufficient, and the
>> tools that come wi
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 18:24 -0500, Brian Mathis wrote:
> You're getting dangerously close to saying "Everything you need to
> know is in the source code", or more succinctly, "RTFM an piss off".
> No one is saying that people shouldn't understand how LDAP works, but
> there's a world of difference
Craig White wrote:
>
>>> I suppose I don't understand what you are saying. Are you saying that
>>> some of the LDAP servers are not compliant with RFC's for LDAP? Which
>>> ones? how?
>> No, I'm saying that there should have been standardized schemas eons ago
>> for the things that everyone needs
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 17:01 -0500, Brian Mathis wrote:
>> In my extremely limited experience with LDAP, it seem that the problem
>> is not "LDAP" itself, but how to structure it. Most howtos walk you
>> through installing whatever software, and
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 16:15 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>
> >>> At that point, using OpenLDAP or CentOS-DS or Fedora-DS is more or less
> >>> a matter of implementation details and utility. None of them are better
> >>> than the other for most purposes and even things like the
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 02:02:37PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
>
> Gerald Carter's book 'LDAP System Administration' is the only book that
> I found that simplified the understanding of LDAP, how it works, how to
> use it, etc. This book probably takes 3-4 hours to digest, work through
> the example
Craig White wrote:
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 15:26 -0500, Rob Kampen wrote:
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
OK, google comes up with what looks like some easy HOWTOs for LDAP
I'll dig in and come back with questions as required
Don't believe it.
The fall of '06, my manager and the
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 17:01 -0500, Brian Mathis wrote:
>
> In my extremely limited experience with LDAP, it seem that the problem
> is not "LDAP" itself, but how to structure it. Most howtos walk you
> through installing whatever software, and then say "OK, now you have
> LDAP!"
>
> The problem
Craig White wrote:
>>> At that point, using OpenLDAP or CentOS-DS or Fedora-DS is more or less
>>> a matter of implementation details and utility. None of them are better
>>> than the other for most purposes and even things like the consoles in
>>> Fedora-DS aren't going to make it any easier for
> In my extremely limited experience with LDAP, it seem that the problem
> is not "LDAP" itself, but how to structure it. Most howtos walk you
> through installing whatever software, and then say "OK, now you have
> LDAP!"
Agreed.
> The problem is that LDAP is useless without a structure and dat
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 15:25 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Craig White wrote:
>> > At that point, using OpenLDAP or CentOS-DS or Fedora-DS is more or less
>> > a matter of implementation details and utility. None of them are better
>> > than the
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 15:25 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > At that point, using OpenLDAP or CentOS-DS or Fedora-DS is more or less
> > a matter of implementation details and utility. None of them are better
> > than the other for most purposes and even things like the consoles
> However I never quite got it done, always seemed real close but not quite.
> Did you document??
> I am now trying the RH / Fedora DS - no problem getting it installed but
> configuration
> Any pointers to docs that actually work. I have purchased books, read
> magazines and spent probably
> Craig White wrote:
>> At that point, using OpenLDAP or CentOS-DS or Fedora-DS is more or less
>> a matter of implementation details and utility. None of them are better
>> than the other for most purposes and even things like the consoles in
>> Fedora-DS aren't going to make it any easier for you
Craig White wrote:
> At that point, using OpenLDAP or CentOS-DS or Fedora-DS is more or less
> a matter of implementation details and utility. None of them are better
> than the other for most purposes and even things like the consoles in
> Fedora-DS aren't going to make it any easier for you to us
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 15:26 -0500, Rob Kampen wrote:
> m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> >> OK, google comes up with what looks like some easy HOWTOs for LDAP
> >>
> >> I'll dig in and come back with questions as required
> >>
> >>
> > Don't believe it.
> >
> > The fall of '06, my manager and the othe
> m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>
>> Don't believe it.
>
> I concur!
>
>> spare), I got it in. openLDAP's docs were *way* insufficient, and the
>> tools that come with it are *not* ready for prime time, and user-surly,
>> to
>> say the least.
>
> Imagine what it was like even earlier, I vaguely recall th
> m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>>> OK, google comes up with what looks like some easy HOWTOs for LDAP
>>>
>>> I'll dig in and come back with questions as required
>>>
>> Don't believe it.
>>
>> The fall of '06, my manager and the other admin and I were discussing
>> what to use for single sign-on. NIS h
> m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>>> OK, google comes up with what looks like some easy HOWTOs for LDAP
>>>
>>> I'll dig in and come back with questions as required
>>>
>> Don't believe it.
>>
>> The fall of '06, my manager and the other admin and I were discussing
>> what to use for single sign-on. NIS h
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Don't believe it.
I concur!
> spare), I got it in. openLDAP's docs were *way* insufficient, and the
> tools that come with it are *not* ready for prime time, and user-surly, to
> say the least.
Imagine what it was like even earlier, I vaguely recall the days/nights
bac
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>> OK, google comes up with what looks like some easy HOWTOs for LDAP
>>
>> I'll dig in and come back with questions as required
>>
> Don't believe it.
>
> The fall of '06, my manager and the other admin and I were discussing what
> to use for single sign-on. NIS has way to
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
OK, google comes up with what looks like some easy HOWTOs for LDAP
I'll dig in and come back with questions as required
Don't believe it.
The fall of '06, my manager and the other admin and I were discussing what
to use for single sign-on. NIS has way too many hol
> OK, google comes up with what looks like some easy HOWTOs for LDAP
>
> I'll dig in and come back with questions as required
>
Don't believe it.
The fall of '06, my manager and the other admin and I were discussing what
to use for single sign-on. NIS has way too many holes, and no one was wild
ab
OK, google comes up with what looks like some easy HOWTOs for LDAP
I'll dig in and come back with questions as required
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>> If thats all you need in place, a ldap based setup would work - perhaps
>> even CDS
>
> Could you point me at examples of either of these?
>
> It is not clear to me where LDAP comes in - for authentication I
> guess. But what about managing the password files? Or does one not
> have to do tha
> If thats all you need in place, a ldap based setup would work - perhaps
> even CDS
Could you point me at examples of either of these?
It is not clear to me where LDAP comes in - for authentication I
guess. But what about managing the password files? Or does one not
have to do that?
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On 11/04/2009 02:50 PM, Alan McKay wrote:
> What is the best way to manage users across multiple CentOS boxes?
If thats all you need in place, a ldap based setup would work - perhaps
even CDS
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On Jul 6, 2009, at 12:15 PM, "Justin Lim" wrote:
> I am just wondering how other people are doing their user management
> for
> multiple servers that not in any type of directory.
>
> Do anyone use any application that query each server for users or
> keep a
> database of users that's on each
Justin Lim wrote:
> I am just wondering how other people are doing their user management for
> multiple servers that not in any type of directory.
>
> Do anyone use any application that query each server for users or keep a
> database of users that's on each server?
>
> I would like to get feedback
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