multihost master.passwd sync

[Eric Anderson]

Michael Collette wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 May 2003 11:30 am, Andy Harrison wrote:
[..snip..]
>>>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.
> 
> 
> Why not just preconfigure SSH keys between the boxes and scp the file across?  
> Seems like a lot of extra work to bring PGP into the mix.
> 
> Personally, I'm real curious about utilizing an LDAP backend to replace NIS.  
> Read a bit about it, but haven't had a chance to play with it just yet.  It 
> sounds like a far more elegant solution for what you're looking to do as 
> well.  Assuming it all works as advertised that is.

I've started this exact process - replacing my NIS gunk with LDAP.. Not 
too far through yet, but I'll try to keep good notes for anyone else who 
may want them..

Eric


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Eric Anderson	   Systems Administrator      Centaur Technology
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