Manage local users across cluster nodes

[Ben Bomgardner]

I am looking for a solution to manage a few hundred users across nodes in a Serviceguard (HPUX) cluster.

I'm assuming that most people use LDAP or NIS(+).
Does anyone have experience with this?

Thanks for any ideas.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

LDAP is widely used. NIS surprisingly enough is also widely used. We use that so local users have the same password across the organization. The goal however is to migrate to LDAP because its more secure.

NIS+ has been deprecated, was always very complex and is not in use heavily. I'd avoid it for all of these reasons.

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[Ben Bomgardner]

Thanks Steven.

I think that I would rather learn to implement LDAP (obviously) than NIS but I don't know if I have the time in this project.

Is NIS that much simpler to setup than LDAP in HPUX?
If so, than I'll just go with that and plan for an upgrade to LDAP in the future.

Would you happen to know of any good documentation for either solution?