Check out NIS or Yellow Pages (man nis). This may be just the ticket.
Other technologies include LDAP and PAM. But NIS should fit your bill and
is easy to deploy on a -local- lan.
Dw
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, David Loszewski wrote:
> basically what we are trying to accomplish is that I'm in an office with
> may employees.
> Say we have 5 different servers, and I have files on the servers that I
> want all the employees in a specific group have read access to those
> files, or write access depending on permissions for that group. So when
> an employee logs into a server I want it to go to some internal
> authentication server and tell the server that it's k for that person to
> access that file. I want to do this without copying to passwd file to
> each server.
>
> Dave
>
> wolf wrote:
>
> > could you be more specific?
> >
> > sharing files via NFS?
> > transparent logging to other servers?
> > other?
> >
> > What you are trying to do in particular affects how you
> > accomplish your goal.
> >
> > stealth215@attbi.com wrote:
> >
> >> Could someone point me in the right direction to find
> >> information on creating an authentication server in such
> >> a way that if some user logs in on a particular machine,
> >> as long as he is in a certain group he will have read
> >> access to all/or certain files as well on other servers
> >> depending on the group and rules set for that group?
> >>
> >> Dave
> >>
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