openSUSE Forums: How to Centralize Passwords

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How to Centralize Passwords Jan 29th 2013, 01:50 I have 6 or so computers all running OpenSUSE 11.2 (Although I think that will be changing to 12.1 soon) and I need to centralize the passwords on all of them. I want every user to have one account and one password that will work on all the machines, and I want it to update automatically. So if a user's password expires they don't have to change it 6 times to get the same password on all the machines. I'm currently using LDAP, but its buggy and giving me problems. I've looked at NIS but its too insecure. The only other idea I've come up with is to write a custom set of scripts that propagates /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd files to all the computers when a password is changed on one of them, but I've come across several problems that will have to be worked around. Before pursuing a possibly stupid idea, I thought I'd ask you all - what do you think is a good program/package to accomplish this? Thanks!

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