On Dec 29, 2008, at 5:33 PM, John Jasen wrote: > Are you looking for any sort of single sign on, are you just looking > at
> centralizing account information and passwords, or are you looking at > something else that requires kerberos? Really just centralizing account information. SSO would be a plus, but is not a requirement. > Single sign on will be entertaining with UNIX systems, as AD doesn't > understand service principal names in the expected way. Centralizing > user info in AD can be done with tools that come relatively native > with > solaris (10), Redhat (4 and 5), and Ubuntu (at least the last three > versions). > > What are you aiming for? I'll be happy to pass along my notes and/or > my > adventures in AD versus UNIX versus NFS. This is mainly for CentOS servers so it should have the RHEL goodies you refer to. As I mentioned above - SSO is not a requirement for this environment. I'd love to see your notes and adventures. I'd really like a solution that is relatively painless to install/ configure so I can train puppet how to take care of this for me (Still learning puppet). Failing that I'm looking for a recipe that I can hand to a junior admin. We've virtualized our environment here and our number of 'servers' is going to be exploding over the next year and I want to do everything I can to make building and maintaining large numbers of servers take less time. Total # of (virtual) servers doubling this year is likely. While shared home directories are not a requirement if we can accomplish this relatively painlessly it would not be a bad thing. The bulk of my staff all accesses a single admin server that they do their work from, so the few of us that need to roam around a lot more can handle using scp to move our own files around. Thanks, Neil Neely http://neil-neely.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
