On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Scot Kreienkamp <SKreien(at)la-z-boy(dot)com>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.
>
It sounds like PAM would be useful for you. That's really what is was
built for.
--Scott