Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 13:52:30 +0100 From: Julien Cigar <julien@perdition.city> To: Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Centralized user/group/whatever management Message-ID: <20200313125230.GB2004@x1> In-Reply-To: <20200313091923.GA98495@admin.sibptus.ru> References: <20200313091923.GA98495@admin.sibptus.ru>
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On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 04:19:23PM +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Do you think there exists a modern solution for centralized user/group/... > management compatible with FreeBSD and Linux? OpenLDAP..? (and if someone has a good GUI/CLI for it .. let me know) > > 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? > > I've been told that Linux has FreeIPA, but I think it's not fully > compatible with FreeBSD, and besides security/sssd wants so many > dependencies (even MIT Kerberos as if FreeBSD's built-in Kerberos is not > good enough). > > Any success stories? > > > -- > Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN > 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ -- Julien Cigar Belgian Biodiversity Platform (http://www.biodiversity.be) PGP fingerprint: EEF9 F697 4B68 D275 7B11 6A25 B2BB 3710 A204 23C0 No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
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