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While implementing the BCFG2 configuration management system on the build farm, the prospect of having a passwd, shadow and groups file controlled by the utility was brought up several times.  While this is one method of managing a consistent set of users and groups across the build farm, I feel that there is other software available that would be better suited for this task.
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While implementing the BCFG2 configuration management system on the build farm, the prospect of having a passwd, shadow and group file controlled by the utility was brought up several times.  While this is one method of managing a consistent set of users and groups across the build farm, I feel that there is other software available that would be better suited for this task.
  
  
  
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Revision as of 15:21, 23 April 2012

While implementing the BCFG2 configuration management system on the build farm, the prospect of having a passwd, shadow and group file controlled by the utility was brought up several times. While this is one method of managing a consistent set of users and groups across the build farm, I feel that there is other software available that would be better suited for this task.


NIS+

OpenLDAP/389 Directory

Kerberos/Heimdall

Other