I’ve recently switched to JumpCloud.com for centralized 
authentication/authorization/intrusion detection/patch monitoring.  I’m 
impressed thus far.  They’re a startup that's making good decisions and 
listening to their user base.

-- 
cjs
From: Smith, David Smith, David
Reply: Smith, David desm...@wustl.edu
Date: February 7, 2014 at 9:28:30 AM
To: Graham Dunn g...@kurai.org, LOPSA Technical Discussions t...@lopsa.org
Subject:  Re: [lopsa-tech] Managing centralized userids on machines that are 
not        "local"  
I’d suggest starting with trying to create a permanent tunnel (VPN or similar) 
back to your own network. That way, you continue to enjoy the benefits of 
centralized credential management.

 

That said, I’m presently toying with a similar problem for spinning up servers 
in Amazon’s cloud, and not sure if the network people will let me set up a 
permanent tunnel, so I’m interested in seeing alternatives. I’m actually 
considering treating it as its own domain, complete with its own AD/LDAP 
environment that isn’t connected to our main one. True, it’s one additional 
place to manage passwords, but it’s one place for all the servers there, 
instead of on a per-server basis.

 

David Smith

 

 

From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On 
Behalf Of Graham Dunn
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 9:05 AM
To: LOPSA Technical Discussions
Subject: [lopsa-tech] Managing centralized userids on machines that are not 
"local"

 

Hi,

 

So we're using LDAP/AD pam modules to provide user logins on our Linux boxen 
that are inside our network, but what are people doing for "remote" (ie. colo, 
DMZ, etc) servers?

 

Generating /etc/passwd locally, then shipping it across via scp or somesuch, or 
setting up a tunnel back into the local network were two things I thought 
about, are there other approaches?

 

Thanks,

Graham

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