multihost master.passwd sync

[Andy Harrison]

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On 27-May-2003, Amit K. Rao wrote message "Re: multihost master.passwd sync"
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> NIS  [yp(8)]  ?

Lord no...  even if you setup a backup nis server, an ailing master server can
really screw up your day.

I think I thought of a solution though.  root cronjob to pgp encrypt the file,
change perms so that it can be accessed by a user that is allowed to copy the
file to the target host.  The file is in encrypted using the public key of
root the target machine, so only root on the target will be able to pgp extract
the file.


~~ 
Andy Harrison
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