centralized update control, accounts

Eric S. Johansson esj at harvee.org
Thu Jun 12 22:26:42 UTC 2008


what's the current standard for centrally managing accounts in small (under 20 
machines) networks?  I assume NIS because from what I've read, the overhead of 
setting up and managing LDAP based authentication/accounts isn't justified.  If 
there is another alternative or another way to look at this problem, I would 
greatly appreciate hearing about it.

The other question is around managing updates.  It would be nice if there was 
some automatic or centralized method by which I could update all machines as 
appropriate without having to go and log in to every single bloody machine and 
spend the better part of a morning doing this task.  Ideas?

Thanks in advance for your answers.

---eric





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