On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Calvin Morrison
<mutantturkey_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 July 2014 16:06, Alexander Tanyukevich <atanyukevich_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:21 PM, Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> LDAP sucks, is there any good alternative for managing user logins
>>> over 5-10 servers?
>>
>> What is wrong with LDAP from your point of view ?
>> Pam has gazilion of modles, and it looks like it's not so hard to
>> write your own. And use maria/postgres/another server's shadow
>> file/facebook/pop3/xmpp server as a backend to store
>> users/passwords/uids/homedirs etc
>
> NFS for users data, but all the login data i want to be synced across
> the servers. I want users to be able to it themselves
>
> LDAP is overly complicated, overly suckly, and less reliable than
> using the native login tools of our linux systems.
>
> recently i have been experimenting with using json over ruby compiled
> on Node.JS as our login manajer though /s
>
Use ldap.
It has replication mechanisms.
It has tonns of documentation and examples.
It is fast and reliable (you can setup master-master replication and
slave on every server.. so even without network it will work) ... I
don't know better solution.
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Alexander Tanyukevich
atanyukevich_AT_gmail.com
Received on Wed Jul 23 2014 - 22:28:45 CEST