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Re: help with cfengine for account management in very large environments

Subject: Re: help with cfengine for account management in very large environments
From: "David Dorgan"
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 23:56:24 +0200
On 6/6/06, Igor Sutton <igor.sutton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You can write a PAM module that does these kind of authorization, by
> grouping your servers e.g. serverA, serverB and serverC only allows users
> having memberOf oracleDBA. It works here in the company I work for, and can
> suit yours too. I think this approach is nice because you can centralize all
> administration to one write server, and then replicate to your slave
> servers.
>
> Just one more idea :)

True! But not to beat a dead horse,  you can also use netgroups in
ldap with pam_access to do this, no coding needed!

David
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