[UPHPU] Passwords

[thebigdog]

> I'm needing to set some passwords for a couple dozen servers and a 
> whole bunch of clients(1000+). And I was wondering what the best way to 
> go about it is. How do you guys/gals go about creating passwords for 
> servers, do you use the same for each service, like do you use the same 
> password for mysql as you do for the machine? do you just come up with 
> the passwords? or do you use a password generator?

on linux boxes that i manage i use ldap for the storage of users and 
passwords...then i setup pam to use ldap for the authentication methods i employ.

http://www.padl.com/OSS/pam_ldap.html
http://quark.humbug.org.au/publications/ldap/system_auth/sage-au/system_auth.html

with pam you can use a bunch of different storage methods...for example i have 
setup dovecot and postix to use pgsql and mysql for the users. you could set 
that up too (unix/linux/mac boxes...not on windows).

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thebigdog