Authentication with auto replication

[Nagilum]

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Olivier Nicole wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a system that needs user authentication.
>
> Right now I am using NIS to share the users password between all
> the machines that need it: one machine is the primary server,
> others clients are also running a secondary server: so would a
> machine get isolated, it could still do authentication with the
> secondary server that it is running. This is all smooth and
> transparent, files replication is done automatically.
>
> I am considering moving away from NIS (because its lack of
> security). Radius could do the trick, I can run several radius
> servers. But then I need to manually synchronize the data between
> the various radius servers.
>
> Does it exists another authentication system that would do the
> automatic data replication like NIS does?

I'm not entirely sure but I think ldap should do the trick (pam_ldap +
nss_ldap).
Good luck,
Nagilum.


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