Unifing sign-on.
Published: 2006-03-19
Category: Networking
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While trying to get a grips on the sistems at the job. I got confronted with at least 11 (!!) lists of users and accesses. each independant of the next. Each with it's own user names and passwords and no sistem in place to manage or syncronize them.
Ofcourse, my reaction was one of horror. How the *bleep* do you keep track of all these users. How to you know whom to insert to where and ofcourse. The imminent danger that you will forget to remove some people when they leave or change positions.

So, I needed a good decent authentication system. Something that intergrates well with both windows and linux. Something that you can script actions into and use as a base for scripts.

So we went off installing and investigating OpenLDAP.

Now it is quite some time later and we are on the eve of moving one of the most critical sistems to use this new authentication sistem. The system being the Email servers.

Everthing looks well. On a new machine, with the best of breed MTA (Postfix). With state of the art Anti-virus software (Clam-AV) and new anti-spam measures (D-Spam). It looks set to be a good start of this new infrastructure.