So to clarify a bit, I don't think I'll be able to do anything with the Surpass cPanel setup, I was mostly mentioning that in case there was something in cPanel I could use and have that be the "master".
For the Linodes, if I were going to do file sharing I would probably do NFS or sshfs. I don't see the point of doing Samba for file sharing between two Linux boxes :) Samba for Unix auth seems a bit odd. I used it at one point with winbind to map AD to the local unix system on a fileserver, and winbind did weird things like change IDs on occasion (though I don't think we had the Unix/POSIX attributes set inside AD, which may have been the problem). But I think that was also Samba 3; it's been long enough that I don't recall for sure. (It was also CentOS which had it's own issues with Samba packages at the time.) -- ~*~ StormeRider ~*~ "Every world needs its heroes [...] They inspire us to be better than we are. And they protect from the darkness that's just around the corner." (from Smallville Season 6x1: "Zod") On why I hate the phrase "that's so lame"... http://bit.ly/Ps3uSS On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Timo Myyrä <[email protected]> wrote: > > 29.10.2014 11:46, Morgan Blackthorne kirjoitti: > > I'm interested in setting up a small setup that would be a centralized > authentication. With my work experience I would lean to AD and LDAP, but I > don't run any Windows boxes and don't understand raw LDAP. > > Any suggestions? I have to think there's a good solution for small > organizations. I could just Chef it based on databags, but that doesn't let > users change their own passwords, which I see as a major downside. > > I have 3 nodes, two Linux Linodes, and 1 reseller cPanel account on > Surpass (can't install custom software there). > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing > [email protected]https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > > Hi, > > For small setups with centralized authentication you could use Samba. Just > set it up as Primary Domain Controller (PDC) and store user credentials in > samba passwd files. Once you're more used to running it you can change the > Samba to use OpenLDAP. > I did little version migration in small office of around 20 people where > they used Samba PDC with OpenLDAP backend. Seemed to work just fine with > mostly Windows environment. Also, using Samba allows you to easily share > printers and files. > > br, > Timo >
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