The easiest is to pick LDAP or NIS, both work very well on Linux. With or without Kerberos for local small setup.
NIS with NFS for file sharing would be probably the simplest setup, but you will eventually wish you had LDAP for integration with various other services. LDAP + Kerberos + NFS is probably the most common and extensible solution. You will absolutely need local DNS and NTP to get it going, but it is well integrated extensible solution. Another option would be to uses Samba - it combines LDAP + Kerberos, so it has less moving parts and can accept Windows hosts without much headache, compared to LDAP and Kerberos. For both solution, you might need some enterprise admin to help setting it up. If well and simply setup, it is not difficult to maintain and manage. IMHO Tomas On Wed, May 2, 2018, 5:36 PM Smith, Cathy <cathy.sm...@pnnl.gov> wrote: > There used to be dns, ldap, kerberos, nis. These are open source > protocols and not restricted to Microsoft. > > > -- > Cathy L. Smith > IT Engineer > > Pacific Northwest National Laboratory > Operated by Battelle for the > U.S. Department of Energy > > Phone: 509.375.2687 > Fax: 509.375.4399 > Email: cathy.sm...@pnnl.gov > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: plug-boun...@pdxlinux.org [mailto:plug-boun...@pdxlinux.org] On > Behalf Of Thomas Groman > Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2018 5:16 PM > To: plug@pdxlinux.org > Subject: [PLUG] Linux centralized authentication > > Has anyone ever made a 100% UNIX/BSD/Linux network with centralized > authentication? Using native protocols not some sort of strange Microsoft > AD mesh thing. > I wanted to build a hacker-space for a school and since it would be > starting from scratch there's no reason to get locked in to a Microsoft > product from the start. Also the Microsoft's protocols are not open source > and hard to debug. They never really work well with UNIX like operating > systems requiring id/group mapping and such. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
