Hi Guys, I am just wanting to centralise all my users across a couple of
systems to the 1 database replicated across all the machines. I know
traditionally LDAP has been the thing to use for this but no matter how hard
I try I can't get my head around exactly how LDAP stores information. I have
got it working and I've been using it for a while now but I find it not so
easy to administer.

If I were to use MySQL it would be as simple as using phpmyadmin plus custom
PHP scripts I could write to do certain things for me. I have seen pam-mysql
& libnss-mysql packages, will this do everything LDAP can do and is it as
secure and reliable or is it more of an afterthought/hack-around?