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Centralized Server

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Admining a Linux server starts to be a pain when all the accounts for all the types of services are in seperate places. I'd like to store all the accounts in one place on the server, and have all the services (including local accounts/ssh etc) authenticate against it. This would include Apache, Samba, Mail etc. Was looking at possible authentication options like OpenLDAP. So instead of smbpasswd, htpasswd, /etc/passwd etc, all the account details of users/passwords are in one place to maintain. Anybody done this before? Share your experiences please :P
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