We've got a number of machines here that we need to switch to centralized account maintenance, and I was trying to figure out what the best solution would be. It looks like the two main solutions would be NIS or ldap (via PAM), but I'm having a hard time finding out enough about the ldap solution to do a good comparison. Is there a good HOWTO or similar somewhere? Is there some other solution I've overlooked. (I thought about just using a cron job and a sync script to keep all the passwd/group files in sync, but that requires you to be able to atomically update the files, and I couldn't see a good way to do that...perhaps some trick with chpasswd/add/deluser...
Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930