replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine

[Jerry McAllister]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 11:28:27AM -0500, stas khromoy wrote:

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> hey folks
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> we are working on building a failover server.
> now everything is going along pretty nicely. (knock on wood)
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> so the question of the day.
> is there a way to replicate the password files ?
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> i doubt that just copying over /etc/passwd and master.passwd will work .

Almost.   You just need to make sure database stuff is updated properly.
Check out pwd_mkdb(8) and vipw(8) and man master.passwd and man passwd.

////jerry

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> thanks