[ale] Managing passwd and sudoers files on multiple servers.

JD jdp at algoloma.com
Fri Aug 22 06:55:50 EDT 2014


On 08/22/2014 12:19 AM, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> On 8/21/14, 11:43 PM, JD wrote:
>> NIS if you don't care about security.
>>
>> LDAP if you do.  FreeIPA is the RH answer for this - I'm jealous.
> Agree re LDAP; if you're syncing passwd/group/sudoers files, you're Doing It
> Wrong (tm).  I long advocated avoiding "X's LDAP solution" (for values of X to
> include Red Hat and Microsoft) so you are motivated to keep things simple and
> manageable and don't wind up in abandonwareland or experience
> embrace/extend/extinguish.
> 

So - if not puppet/ansible - then how should we be managing sudoers?
Teach me Obiwan.

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