Found another set of Conversion Tools for LDAP, many free (GPL) and some commercial. Bottom-line: LDAP is a safe path to build and store your authentication directory information with/in. You can easily (relatively) convert form LDAP to standard Linux passwd and shadow files, or to NIS...
Just found a great tip to prevent timeouts of PuTTY sessions. I'm fine with timeouts by the host, but in our case the firewall kills sessions after 30 minutes of inactivity... When using PuTTY to ssh to your Linux/Unix servers, be sure to use the feature to send NULL packets to prevent a timeout. I've set it to once every 900 seconds, i.e. 15 minutes... See screenshot on the right.
Comments