multihost master.passwd sync

[Bill Swingle]

This is a way late reply but I've had wonderful success with using NIS
for distributing user info (but *'ing out the passwords) then using
kerberos for authentication. Dunno if that helps.

-Bill

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 09:36:27AM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 09:35:17AM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 01:46:37PM -0400, Andy Harrison wrote:
> > > 
> > > Just wondered if anyone had any suggestions about syncing up master.passwd
> > > files between multiple machines that didn't involve allowing root login
> > > remotely?  The users need to be able to log in remotely and own files on the
> > > different machines.
> > 
> > People have mentioned LDAP; I am truly surprised no one has mentioned
> > Kerberos yet.
> 
> Oh wait, nevermind.  That's what I get for posting before coffee;
> Kerberos still needs some way of telling the system that there is
> such a user in the first place.
> 
> G'luck,
> Peter
> 
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