rysnc /etc/passwd files

[pierre_stephane.baton at alcatelaleniaspace.com]

Look around this:

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/index.html

a colleague tests it to replicate files (a partition with data, no /etc or 
other core files, but it worth the try) between a Debian and an openBSD, 
it works great.



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I'm not sure why you'd want to do this when there are so many good,
free LDAP servers out there.  If you really need user information to
be consistent across many machines, you need to be looking at a
network-aware user information store.  If you're new to LDAP, OpenLDAP
is a good place to start; if you've used LDAP before, or are up for a
challenge, you might look at Fedora DS.  Either one is far superior to
rsyncing passwd files.

Chris St. Pierre
Unix Systems Administrator
Nebraska Wesleyan University

On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, James Marcinek wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to write a script that will copy the needed security files 
from one
> system to another. The reason is to facilitate clustering, though I 
could see
> it being used to centralize accounts and with NFS $HOME directories it 
could
> work...
>
> Granted that one allows root to do this, which I intend not to...
>
> I want to make sure that I get all of the necessary files:
>
> /etc/passwd
> /etc/group
> /etc/shadow
> /etc/gshadow
>
> Am I missing any? I also understand that it is possible to use other
> authentication config's. I would also be interested in knowing of any
> differences and if there's any easy way to determine which is 
implemented, if
> so.
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>
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