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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Password database Post 302136781 by thumper on Wednesday 19th of September 2007 05:11:28 PM
Old 09-19-2007
Password database

Quote:
Originally Posted by cassj
What are you wanting to accomplish with this...

1. just store all kinds of passwords securely in a database for users to retrieve.
Basically yes.

This database is for use by a support group maintaining routers, switches, servers, etc. Of course all users should not have access to everything so I need to be able to limit their access to passwords based on the group they are in. From my limited database knowledge I believe this would be considered a view.

2. Or does the database need to feed to passwords to applications? That of course is more involved.
Nope, not needed.

2. Server as a central authentication point for infrastructure access? In that case, ONE option would be to look at LDAP, such as OpenLDAP OpenLDAP
No, not trying to set up something like a PKI, that's too complicated for me.
Thanks
thumper
 

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SLAPD-MONITOR(5)						File Formats Manual						  SLAPD-MONITOR(5)

NAME
slapd-monitor - Monitor backend to slapd SYNOPSIS
/etc/openldap/slapd.conf DESCRIPTION
The monitor backend to slapd(8) is not an actual database; if enabled, it is automatically generated and dynamically maintained by slapd with information about the running status of the daemon. To inspect all monitor information, issue a subtree search with base cn=Monitor, requesting that attributes "+" and "*" are returned. The monitor backend produces mostly operational attributes, and LDAP only returns operational attributes that are explicitly requested. Requesting attribute "+" is an extension which requests all operational attributes. CONFIGURATION
These slapd.conf options apply to the monitor backend database. That is, they must follow a "database monitor" line and come before any subsequent "backend" or "database" lines. As opposed to most databases, the monitor database can be instantiated only once, i.e. only one occurrence of "database monitor" can occur in the slapd.conf(5) file. Moreover, the suffix of the database cannot be explicitly set by means of the suffix directive. The suffix is automatically set to "cn=Monitor". The monitor database honors the rootdn and the rootpw directives, and the usual ACL directives, e.g. the access directive. Other database options are described in the slapd.conf(5) manual page. USAGE
The usage is: 1) enable the monitor backend at configure: configure --enable-monitor 2) activate the monitor database in the slapd.conf(5) file: database monitor 3) add ACLs as detailed in slapd.access(5) to control access to the database, e.g.: access to dn.subtree="cn=Monitor" by dn.exact="uid=Admin,dc=my,dc=org" write by users read by * none 4) ensure that the core.schema file is loaded. The monitor backend relies on some standard track attributeTypes that must be already defined when the backend is started. ACCESS CONTROL
The monitor backend honors access control semantics as indicated in slapd.access(5), including the disclose access privilege, on all cur- rently implemented operations. KNOWN LIMITATIONS
The monitor backend does not honor size/time limits in search operations. FILES
/etc/openldap/slapd.conf default slapd configuration file SEE ALSO
slapd.conf(5), slapd-config(5), slapd.access(5), slapd(8), ldap(3). ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
OpenLDAP Software is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project <http://www.openldap.org/>. OpenLDAP Software is derived from Uni- versity of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release. OpenLDAP 2.4.28 2011/11/24 SLAPD-MONITOR(5)
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