managing the /etc/pam.d files

Shawn Wells shawn at redhat.com
Thu May 23 22:17:29 UTC 2013


On 5/23/13 12:49 PM, Joseph Lutz wrote:
> Is anyone aware of some opensource software that will manage a systems 
> /etc/pam.d configuration. I am looking for some software that I can 
> tie into our Web Management system that will take care of writing 
> changes to the pam.d files. Currently I am using 
> come complected python programs that work fine for 
> the particular setup that we are running. But I foresee changes needed 
> in our setup. If I am going to rewrite part of the pam file management 
> code I want to check if there is something already available to do at 
> least part of the work.
>
Puppet works wonderfully.

And if you're running RHEL, consider checking out RHN Satellite (which 
provides centralized config management). CentOS systems could use 
Spacewalk (upstream source for Spacewalk).




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