remote password change

[pepe]

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Robert Simmons <rsimmons0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 8:17 AM, pepe <plaine at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have two FreeBSD 8 servers running. Server A is for shell access and
> > server B for www pages. On B there is only scp/sftp access and no shell
> > login.
> > Now I'm looking for solution for people to be able to change password for
> > server B from inside server A. Or better yet, automatic migration of
> > password so if user changes password for server A it would change in
> server
> > B too. Are there some solutions to do this?
>
> NIS was mentioned, another option is Kerberos5.  The effect would be
> the same: centralization of authentication.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kerberos5.html
> _______________________________________________
>

Ty. I'll look into those later. I didn't mention earlier that I have some
users on server A
that are not in server B and other way around. Does those (nis and
kerberos5) still work
so only users on both server will be effected and other users will work
unaffected?

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pepe