multihost master.passwd sync

Andy Harrison ah60 at httpsite.com
Tue May 27 12:31:26 PDT 2003


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On 27-May-2003, Eric Anderson wrote message "Re: multihost master.passwd sync"
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>> Because we don't allow root login remotely, mandated from above.
> 
> so you scp the file to a directory owned by a user designated to only do 
> this function.. then have a cron job that fires up every so often that 
> snags that file and updates the running master.passwd file..

Root can't scp a file from one host to another where remote root login is not
allowed.  

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Andy Harrison
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