Hello all I'm assigned with a project to make a central admin user database for all kind of servers / devices you can imagine (routers, switches, firewalls, linux servers, windows servers, databases, etc.). The point is that when a news employee arrives you just make him a user in this database, maybe check which type of devices he can and all the devices are configured to authenticate users against this db. We have over 200 switches alone in our company so making user accounts in every single one of them and when this dude leaves to disable all of them is huge (or impossible) work. So I thought a linux server LDAP+FreeRADIUS for authentication sounds quick, easy and good solution, or not? There is no problem with servers Linux and Windows servers can authenticate against radius. Most popular DB -s can do this also (Oracle, MySQL, PostgresSQL). I don't know about Cisco switches and roters but as far I found in google there should be no problems the same goes for juniper devices. So what do you think? Or maybe you know a free software solution for this kind of problem already? Sun identity management is one that i checked out but it seems too bloated and complicated. So what are your thoughts? -- Andres Kaaber