Re: OT: password management

["Miguel González Castaños" <mgc@tid.es>]

Hello again,

 I think I didnt explain myself well.

 I was asking how you admins solve the problem of having to administer
several servers. This normally
has the problem of managing different password, change them
periodically, etc. I have read in the
linux network administration guide that there are tools that ease the
management of such passwords, generate
new passwords, etc.

 I dont know if I am making the question in the wrong way, I hope you
understand me.

 About PAM and LDAP I think both systems are to authenticate one user in
one or several services in one or several servers (like in the case of
LDAP).

 I am asking more about how you manage different accounts in different
servers of different customers.

 Sorry for the misunderstanding and my poor English

 Many thanks in advance

 Miguel

Saint Neon ha escrito:

> --- Miguel González Castaños <mgc@tid.es> wrote:
> > dear all,
> >
> >  I would like to know how you guys solve the problem
> > about how to
> > manage passwords of a bunch of accounts in different
> > servers in a safe
> > way of course (generating new passwords,
> > save/retrieve them, etc) but
> > easyly accesable at
> > the same time...
>
> PAM (Pluggable Application Modules) provide a
> centralized mechanism for authenticating all services.
> It applies to login, rlogin, telnet, rsh, PPP, su
> among others. In fact, PAM can be used for any linux
> application. The best documentation is available at
>
> http://www.kernel.org/linux/libs/pam/
>
> Neon.
>
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