[Cialug] sharing user credentials

[chris]

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Simple guide to get you through the web authentication part of Josh's
suggestion, assuming you are using Apache and prefer to let it handle
the auth.over pushing it back to php.  Apache will pass the
authenticated user as a ENV variable to your application, be it a cgi,
ruby, php, etc...

http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/UseLDAPToPasswordProtectAFolder


crr




Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> Lets say you have 2 computers, each with a number of virtual hosts, say 5
> regulars (total) and you occassionally bring up new hosts for short-term
> projects. You've got a couple users with sudo access and a couple users
> without.
> 
>  * You want to be able to quickly add users to all virtual hosts and
> likewise revoke the users in the same way.
>  * NFS cannot be used, nor can Samba, nor can Gnome VFS
>  * It should be easy to add an ssh key to all the hosts
>  * It would be nice if the user's home directories were available on all
> hosts but not a necessity
> 
> How would you accomplish the above?
> 
> How about if you have a third computer on a distant network (behind NAT)
> that also wants to benefit from the above shared authentication?
> 
> 
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