Re: slightly off-topic: Central Auth

On 16/10/2009 19:38, Scot Kreienkamp wrote:
> Hey everyone,
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> I apologize in advance for going slightly off topic, but I have never
> setup a centralized authentication scheme under Linux. My question is,
> what do most people do for centralized command line, X, and PG
> authentication? From what I've read the main choices are NIS or LDAP.
> LDAP would be problematic as I would have to embed a login and plain
> text password in the ldap.conf file for binding to the MS AD. On the
> other hand, it seems like NIS is old, inflexible, outdated, and possibly
> nearing end of life. We are a largely Windows shop with many app and
> database servers running Linux. The Linux environment is growing too
> large not to do centralized authentication of some kind.
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> At this point I'm open to suggestions or comments. SSH and X are
> required, PG would be nice to be able to auth centrally as well while
> I'm at it.

Does "PG" = PostgreSQL? If so, it can do LDAP, Kerberos and PAM, among
other things:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/client-authentication.html

Ray.

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