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Special Forums UNIX and Linux Applications Password management / centralized password management Post 302542936 by Peasant on Friday 29th of July 2011 04:20:18 AM
Old 07-29-2011
You can also use kerberos server with pam_krb

Be careful tho, kerberos is somewhat complicated to setup and requires clients and server to be in time sync.
But should be the most secure way.

Regards
Peasant
 

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KRB5-CONFIG(1)						      General Commands Manual						    KRB5-CONFIG(1)

NAME
krb5-config - tool for linking against MIT Kerberos libraries SYNOPSIS
krb5-config [ --help | --all | --version | --vendor | --prefix | --exec-prefix | --cflags | --libs libraries ] DESCRIPTION
krb5-config tells the application programmer what special flags to use to compile and link programs against the installed Kerberos libraries. OPTIONS
--help print usage message. This is the default. --all prints version, vendor, prefix and exec-prefix. --version prints the version of the installed Kerberos implementation. --vendor prints the vendor of the installed Kerberos implementation. --prefix prints the prefix with which Kerberos was built. --exec-prefix prints the exec-prefix with which Kerberos was built. --cflags prints the compiler flags with which Kerberos was built. --libs libraries list compiler options required to link with libraries. Possible values for libraries are: krb5 Kerberos 5 application gssapi GSSAPI application with Kerberos 5 bindings kadm-client Kadmin client kadm-server Kadmin server kdb Application that accesses the kerberos database SEE ALSO
kerberos(1), cc(1) KRB5-CONFIG(1)
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