[389-users] allowing only certain users to log into Linux boxen

[muzzol]

2009/12/3 Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com>:
> Hey folks,
>
> I finally have this thing running - and I love it so far!  I have
> basic Linux login working, as well as Apache auth.  Those are my 2
> primary concerns so I think I'm ready to start to roll this bad boy
> out.
>
> And one password to unite them all!!!  Bwa, ha, ha, ha!
>
> Anyway, I digress :-)
>
> I checked in here
>
> http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation#Howtos
>
> and do not see a recipe for what I want to do.  However, when I read
> through the Red Hat guides it looks to me like this is possible.  I'm
> just not sure how to do it.
>
> I want to have a Group A and Server X, and a rule that says "Only
> people from Group A can log into Server X".
>

that has nothing to do with ldap, is standard posix. once you have all
users and groups running you have to edit

/etc/security/access.conf

and allow only users you want.

my advice is create a group for every server/environment so you can go
as finer as you want.

then you just have to update group information.

i usually create groups with a prefix:

server-frontweb: user1, user2
server-database: user3, user4

so it's easier to manage.

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