From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miguel =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gonz=E1lez=20Casta=F1os?= Subject: Re: OT: password management Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 16:38:54 +0100 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E1C460E.82E87F67@tid.es> References: <20030108152241.18991.qmail@web40803.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Saint Neon Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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 i= n 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 Gonz=E1lez Casta=F1os 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. > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html