[K12OSN] NEW HOWTO - Setup a Simple Application Server - PART V

Josiah Ritchie jritchie at bible.edu
Fri Aug 6 15:51:17 UTC 2004


LDAP is a great backend for what you want to do, plus you can use pgina
to authenticate your XP boxes to it so you'll have one authentication
database for everything XP and Linux. It might also work for W2000, etc.

I've just recently setup our network this way and am very happy with it,
once I figured out how to get the ACLs to work right. :-)

JSR/

On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 11:34, Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> > For real cool admin stuff, collect all your users in a LDAP 
> > db server (we populated 1100 users in de dbase with al little 
> > AWK scripting) Give them with apg generated passwords and let 
> > all servers authenticate to that LDAP server.
> > 
> > Next use pam_mkhomedir module and the aforementioned auto ssh 
> > keygeneration trick in the x init.d  map and your users will 
> > automatically be setup with there first login.
> 
> Sounds like this suggestion coupled with the last few would make a great
> addition to the How To site of Gavin's!  This could really bring
> everything together.  I wish I knew more about this stuff because I
> would love to help.  For me central authentication is a big mystery yet,
> so I am just running every thing off of a single quad processor box.
> But splitting them up would be great.  
> 
> My idea that I want to get figured out is to have a central
> authentication server running from sort of database backend (mysql
> maybe, or LDAP but not sure how to tie to a database), then I could tie
> our desktop database for managing students and families right into it.
> So I when a new student enters the school and Admissions enters them
> into the database, the random alphanumeric password is generated with a
> unique username, which updates the server backend automatically, then
> all other server receive their updates from the main auth server, home
> folders generate with keys and mail accounts automatically setup, the
> web portal which is also tied to the auth server would update, and all I
> have to do is.....oh yea...nothing :-)
> 
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