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Re: Remote Authentication

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Old 01-05-2008, 01:56 PM
Martin Schoen
 
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Default Re: Remote Authentication

MrPaul wrote:

> I have many solaris servers with approx 30,000 user accounts.
> Currently, I'm generating a new passwd/shadow file every 5 minutes
> from a MySQL database. I feel this is somewhat less than efficient.


You definitely want to use ldap.

Never seen any serious admin trying to handle more than, let's say, 200
users without using whatever kind of directory service.

Martin


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