Hey Everybody,

I've got two servers... a file server that uses Samba and an email server. They currently each have their own sets of passwords that they use to authenticate users.

I have Usermin setup on both so that people can change their passwords using a web interface, but they have to do it in two places.

What's the best way for a situation like this to have a single web interface that changes both the email server system users password and the Samba password on the file server?

I use an LDAP server that authenticates all of my Linux/Unix/Solaris boxes. OpenLDAP is free, and not all that hard to setup.
Here is the tutorial that I followed when I was starting with it: http://enterprise.linux.com/article....930256&tid=129

Just about every program supports LDAP authentication, as using the PAM LDAP module makes an LDAP user work the same as a user in /etc/passwd

There are also may web-based tools that can update LDAP passwords, such as phpLDAPadmin.

There are other ways, such as programs that will sync the passwords across systems, but I set LDAP up even for a few boxes, because if I need to add more later, it is only a few clicks (or keypresses in this case)

I'd heard about LDAP authentication but I wasn't sure how to get started. Thanks for the info.