remote password change

pepe plaine at gmail.com
Mon May 30 16:39:05 UTC 2011


On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:31 AM, pepe <plaine at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 3:17 PM, pepe <plaine at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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?
>>
>> --
>> pepe
>>
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>
> So. I did look into NIS but it seems little problematic with different UIDs
> on all users in different servers. And the thing is I don't really need to
> sync passwords that much. It would be enough if there is way to just change
> passwords in ftp/scp server with shell access only into other server. If
> there is not this kind of solution then web-application would be ok too if
> there are any? NIS would be good, but seems little heavy solution since all
> that I really need right now between these servers is access for some people
> to change their ftp password...
>
> --
> pepe
>

Ok. Problem solved. I just had to run nis server on other server B and then
password can be changed from server A with yppasswd -h host.server.A
Thank's for suggestions everyone!

-- 
pepe


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