replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine

[Robin Vley]

Kirk Strauser wrote:

>> i doubt that just copying over /etc/passwd and master.passwd will work .
> You'd also need to pick up /etc/{s,}pwd.db - the compiled versions of those 
> files.

I just read in another post that you can compile them using pwd_mkdb, 
that was news for me. I just want to confirm that just copying (rsyncing 
in our case) the .db files works just fine.

We do it to a mirror of our webhosting platform, all logins work just 
fine on the mirrored machine.

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Robin Vley
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