* John W. Himpel via server [17/12/2024 15:11] :
- Is is reasonable/unreasonable to assume LDP/NIS/etc is suitable for home lab / Small
Office / Home Office type environments.
I would suggest LDAP is suitable if your infrastructure is somewhat dynamic (ie. hosts appear and disappear regularly) or if the list of users is dynamic (people are coming and going and need to log onto the hosts).
- Is is reasonable/unreasonable to assume Fedora Server has a place in the datacenter
environment?
I would say yes.
- What would be your solution to keep userid/UID/GID in sync across different hosts?
If you're in a dynamic environment (see above), I would recommend LDAP. If not, I would just assign a UID/GID set to every user and track them by hand.
There might be a middle ground where you use something like rdebock's users role[1] to apply UIDs and GIDs consistently across all systems.
Emmanuel
[1] https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/standalone/roles/robertdebock/users/