LDAP support via sudo in UNIX

An enterprising blogger expounds how you do no longer need to be limited in how UNIX users are managed, such as storing user account in flat files. Using sudo will let the administrator utilize a directory service for security (i.e. authentication/authorization). There are other solutions, but here is one that is relatively easy and cheap since sudo is open-source and the functionality is built-in.http://breakablelinux.blogspot.com/2007/12/linux-authentication-and-authorization.html

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