Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 12:02:59 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Centralized user/group/whatever management Message-ID: <20200314050259.GA27346@admin.sibptus.ru> In-Reply-To: <9545bd42-2946-0f82-619f-d7cad6d17e5d@chemie.uni-hamburg.de> References: <20200313091923.GA98495@admin.sibptus.ru> <9545bd42-2946-0f82-619f-d7cad6d17e5d@chemie.uni-hamburg.de>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Christian Schmidt wrote: > Hi Victor, > > Victor Sudakov, 13.03.20: > > Do you think there exists a modern solution for centralized user/group/... > > management compatible with FreeBSD and Linux? > > > > I have experience using NIS on FreeBSD for many years, but NIS is really very > > dated, not very secure, depends on the NIS servers being reachable all the > > time, depends on Sun RPC (portmapper, dynamic ports) and has other > > drawbacks. I know this from experience. > > > > Are there any modern solutions for FreeBSD hosts to have at least a common > > user/userid/group/groupid database, or maybe even more centralized goodies? > > (Open)LDAP is quite commonly used for this. Please be more specific. What mechanisms are commonly used in FreeBSD to lookup users/groups in OpenLDAP? A link to some documented BP or howto would be appreciated. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJebGWDAAoJEA2k8lmbXsY0hjsH/07h95DqG76AEriuD1mOgAWZ po+e3d1XecvDRyKOJ77YhUYlVqtRQ8n8w4yFAM8pmmGDI1MaOj0E+2C2QCsaln70 uzuZ0OEJ/QX+cdCxKXIbu2OW8zBzYB8sxyn7YwJnGLCJNDRlzfhgG9gE4koE1EOq oboaM1nOs6XyLXd7XSA2kZ2BOFx7t1fiEwQTh4+Vpi9W/nY/cJHu2ouf0Lz/hWWx FU6NB/LZ2ND4ChQKwus3m8W5XBup968EvOI0BEnkTcVYNe8vLRsxtud0lnsuKDJN 4gSBBWql8NVe9K9IoyPQu0s1rGHKyiHPQ+jvppAEM7/dofzP1WsLR5twLhT95rc= =tcDa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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