We have 8 Solaris 8 servers and 3 Solaris WS all being accessed via
Exceed, FTP, and Telnet.  I am VERY new to Unix OS but so I really
like it.  I am looking for a way to have a centralized login
repository.  When I need to add/delete user access I do not want to
have to do so in each server.  Is this at all possible?

Thanks,
Daniel

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Daniel wrote:

> We have 8 Solaris 8 servers and 3 Solaris WS all being accessed via
> Exceed, FTP, and Telnet.  I am VERY new to Unix OS but so I really
> like it.  I am looking for a way to have a centralized login
> repository.  When I need to add/delete user access I do not want to
> have to do so in each server.  Is this at all possible?

Yes.  Set up NIS or LDAP (the latter is preferred).

-- 
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published in August 2004.

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Rich Teer wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Daniel wrote:
> 
> 
>>We have 8 Solaris 8 servers and 3 Solaris WS all being accessed via
>>Exceed, FTP, and Telnet.  I am VERY new to Unix OS but so I really
>>like it.  I am looking for a way to have a centralized login
>>repository.  When I need to add/delete user access I do not want to
>>have to do so in each server.  Is this at all possible?
> 
> 
> Yes.  Set up NIS or LDAP (the latter is preferred).
> 

Any solid tutorials/guides for the latter?

OpenLDAP or Sun DirectoryServer?

cheers

Rob

Rich Teer wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Daniel wrote:
> 
> 
>>We have 8 Solaris 8 servers and 3 Solaris WS all being accessed via
>>Exceed, FTP, and Telnet.  I am VERY new to Unix OS but so I really
>>like it.  I am looking for a way to have a centralized login
>>repository.  When I need to add/delete user access I do not want to
>>have to do so in each server.  Is this at all possible?
> 
> 
> Yes.  Set up NIS or LDAP (the latter is preferred).


Not exactly easy tasks for someone "VERY new to Unix".
For such a small network it might be easier to rsync passwd/shadow files.

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Rob Shepherd wrote:

> Any solid tutorials/guides for the latter?

There's a few around; docs.sun.com should have some pointers.

> OpenLDAP or Sun DirectoryServer?

I'd go with the latter, on Solaris 9.

-- 
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, author of "Solaris Systems Programming",
published in August 2004.

President,
Rite Online Inc.

Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
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Rich Teer wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Rob Shepherd wrote:
> 
>>OpenLDAP or Sun DirectoryServer?
> 
> 
> I'd go with the latter, on Solaris 9.
> 

why?

regards

Rob

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Rob Shepherd wrote:

> why?

Why not?

Sun's LDAP server is integrated with Solaris, scales better, and
has better performance (at least, that's what the blurb says).

-- 
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, author of "Solaris Systems Programming",
published in August 2004.

President,
Rite Online Inc.

Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
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On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 18:10:44 +0000, Rich Teer wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Rob Shepherd wrote:
> 
>> why?
> 
> Why not?
> 
> Sun's LDAP server is integrated with Solaris, scales better, and
> has better performance (at least, that's what the blurb says).

Besides, it is already installed with a "Complete" package cluster and it
has a GUI.  Mucking about with schemas and .ldif files is no fun for a new
user of LDAP.

Oscar del Rio <delrio@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote in message news:<cjuere$l7v$1@news.mie>...
> Rich Teer wrote:
> > On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Daniel wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>We have 8 Solaris 8 servers and 3 Solaris WS all being accessed via
> >>Exceed, FTP, and Telnet.  I am VERY new to Unix OS but so I really
> >>like it.  I am looking for a way to have a centralized login
> >>repository.  When I need to add/delete user access I do not want to
> >>have to do so in each server.  Is this at all possible?
> > 
> > 
> > Yes.  Set up NIS or LDAP (the latter is preferred).
> 
> 
> Not exactly easy tasks for someone "VERY new to Unix".
> For such a small network it might be easier to rsync passwd/shadow files.

Thanks for all the info.  I don't mind a learning curve in order to do
it right.  LDAP might be the way to go since I will be using LDAP on
our VPN server as well.

What are the "gotchas" that I should keep on eye on?

Thanks again,
Daniel