Central User authentication for family laptops
Hello!, For "family fleet", I'm looking for centralizing user authentication (4 laptops). The idea is to have be able login with the same credentials in any laptop. I've been thinking about FreeIPA+SSSD+Zerotier. Now, in server environments I've seen SSSD refusing to recognize users from time to time, troubleshooting pending (meanwhile a co-worker decided to restart sssd each 10 min via cron ¬¬). I don't want my usecase to be labor intensive in troubleshooting. I've also found that Ubuntu has something going on with OIDC (probably mimicking Windows+Office 365): https://ubuntu.com/blog/authd-oidc-authentication-for-ubuntu-desktop-server What's everyone using for this use case? Regards, Cyrus
On 2025-03-24 14:58, Cyrus wrote:
I am not a family, but I have several laptops (maybe 4) and desktops. ...
What's everyone using for this use case?
Nothing. Simply I create the same users on the same order on all machines. Thus the laptops work even when out of home. But your question is interesting. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.6 x86_64 at Telcontar)
On 24.03.2025 kl. 14.58 Cyrus wrote:
Of course, if the intention is to allow users to be able to change password on one labtop and this then to be distributed to all, then this is not the solution. But we have not seen this as a requirement in our family. I can logon on to a couple of machines and from there I can reach all other using ssh keys. SSH keys dont change that often and can be pushed using Ansible to. -- Klaus
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