replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine

[stas khromoy]

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thanks for the help guys !

Jerry McAllister wrote:
> 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 ?
>>
>> 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
> 
>> thanks
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