unix user management

[buraglio]

I'm looking for a quick way to do some multihost user management. I have 8 OpenBSD machines and a FreeBSD machine in various locations and I would like to be able to have all users, passwords, and groups replicated between them. I've used NIS+ in the past (and never want to use it again) and have some some looking at OpenLDAP (looks a but too bloated for what I need). I've tested scp-ing the /etc/group, /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd files using an croned script and ssh keys, but that seems too clunky. Does anyone have a more elegant but relatively thin wat to do this? I've seen it done through a postgresql database and a set of scripts that build the files from the db....I guess thats a possibility, i'd have to learn postgresql though. Any help appreciated. thanks.
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Nicholas D. Buraglio

http://www.buraglio.com/docs/pgp-pub-key

 

[AIXSPadmin]

LDAP would be fine for central unified logins, but LDAP does not really support single sign-on or as an authentication service. In this case you would want to use Kerberos to provide an SSO environment.

 

[buraglio]

I have also been playing with using openbsd as a KDC, but it just seems that there should be a better way to do it. NIS+ did more or less everything I wanted (aside from it breaking for no reason and have 0 documentation). I'd really rather not use LDAP since some of the machines are very underpowered.
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Nicholas D. Buraglio

http://www.buraglio.com/nick/gpg-pub-key.txt

 

[Annihilannic]

Perhaps plain old NIS instead of NIS+, because it's much simpler and does the job? Annihilannic.