Re: managing the /etc/pam.d files

Shawn Wells <[email protected]> Thu, 23 May 2013 18:23:00 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.pam
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 5/23/13 6:17 PM, Shawn Wells wrote:
> 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). 

:s/source for Spacewalk/source for Satellite/r

Some docs @ 
https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Network_Satellite/5.5/html-single/Reference_Guide/index.html#sect-Reference_Guide-Configuration