multihost master.passwd sync

[Michael Collette]

On Tuesday 27 May 2003 12:04 pm, Eric Anderson wrote:
> 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

FYI, O'Reilley has a fairly new book out concerning this topic.  I've only 
scratched the surface of it thus far, but it's the best I've seen on this 
topic thus far.  I was doing some real serious shopping for an LDAP book a 
couple of months ago.

Anyhow, what I'm talking about...
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ldapsa/

Later on,
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