[ale] Managing passwd and sudoers files on multiple servers.

[Jerald Sheets]

Full installation instructions for Puppet Open Source on my website in a series of articles:

Starts here:  http://questy.org/2014/01/puppet-i-installation/

It’s not as hard as everyone seems to believe.  After all, I figured it out… LOL!

—j


On Aug 21, 2014, at 11:43 PM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:

> NIS if you don't care about security.
> 
> LDAP if you do.  FreeIPA is the RH answer for this - I'm jealous.
> 
> Ansible for managing systems configurations from a central repo - similar to
> puppet, but much less work to get started and no remote-system requirements that
> you don't have installed already.  Newer Linux systems support a /etc/suders.d/
> directory - put your customizations in there.
> 
> All relatively easy.  Managing the sudoers should be 30 min of effort - tops.
> Don't know about FreeIPA, but you've hit the point where that and Ansible make
> lots of sense, IMHO.
> 
> This all sounds like lots of fun to me!
> 
> On 08/21/2014 08:04 PM, Raj Wurttemberg wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I have a client with about 40 Linux (RHEL) servers and I need the ability to
>> update all of the passwd and suders files across all of the systems.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Is there an easy way to do this?
>> 
>> 
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