Linux password server?

[adam fisher]

Kenneth,

I would have to agree with Micheal,  LDAP is really the way to go.

I have set this up on a number of occasions and it really isn't that difficult.  It makes bringing up new servers rather easy as well. 

Adam
----- Kenneth Burgener <kenneth at mail1.ttak.org> wrote:
> Maybe someone could point me in the right direction.  I have several
> Linux servers, and maintaining users and passwords  individually
> across
> all of them is getting to be painful.  So I am hoping to find a
> "Linux
> password server" option that I can manage all users and passwords
> from. 
> Google didn't appear to be much help, and kept pointing me to using
> Samba (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=linux+password+server). 
> I
> have heard there are several security issues with the Windows
> authentication, and it seems overkill to use a Windows based
> authentication scheme in a pure Linux environment.  Is there a
> simple,
> secure and lightweight Linux way of doing this (and by lightweight I
> mean staying away from LDAP overkill as well).
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> If it helps, all of the servers are running Fedora Core 5 (64bit).
> 
> Thanks,
> Kenneth
> 
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