centralized user management

["Matt Van Mater" <nutter__(_at_)_hotmail_(_dot_)_com>]

I'm looking for a way to manage user accounts on my small home network, and 
would like to create a centralized method of authentication.  I have looked 
into it and have yet to find a solution that meets my needs well.  I am 
aware of openldap, but i think that implementing LDAP in my small network 
would be a huge overkill for syncing a few users/groups and things like 
that.

One really easy way of doing it would be to set up an nfs mount and use the 
passwd file on a central computer, but this would be an extremely bad idea 
i'm sure.

I looked into kerberos, but I admit I only have a cursory knowledge of how I 
can use it in an openbsd environment.  I have read several tutorials linked 
off of deadly.org but they all address the need to kerberize daemons like 
telnet and ftp, and don't address my need for a simple logon.

How would you guys suggest I set up a relatively secure, centralized 
authentication system for a network made up of mostly openbsd machines (I do 
have some freebsd, mandrake and win2k boxen, but i don't care about them 
using the same auth)

Matt





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