topic Re: Password Synchronisation in Operating System - HP-UX

Password Synchronisation

Mahendra Luhar — Mon, 07 Oct 2002 09:38:40 GMT

What's the best way to synchronise passwords,uids between nodes from a single source.I'm currently administering the /etc/passwd file local to the nodes.
As you will agree this is a chore and hardly qualifys as a high availability solution.

Re: Password Synchronisation

Clemens van Everdingen — Mon, 07 Oct 2002 09:45:37 GMT

Hi,

Nis should provide you with a working solution !

see: http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/B1031-90048.html

C.

Re: Password Synchronisation

A. Clay Stephenson — Mon, 07 Oct 2002 12:59:42 GMT

The best way is probably NIS+ but the easist way is NIS. NIS+ is more difficult to set up but it's also more powerful and more secure.

Re: Password Synchronisation

Mahendra Luhar — Tue, 08 Oct 2002 10:01:51 GMT

Thanks for your help.
I shall try out the NIS solution first on our test environment.

Re: Password Synchronisation

Telia BackOffice — Tue, 08 Oct 2002 10:04:25 GMT

You could use NIS or NIS+ with og without nfs mounted home directories.

BR
Jannik

Re: Password Synchronisation

Pete Randall — Tue, 08 Oct 2002 10:14:36 GMT

For a small number of nodes, assuming you're set up to use rcp, you can just set up a script to copy the files to all your nodes.

HOST=`hostname`
HOSTLIST=george ralph henry lydia
for SERVER in $HOSTLIST
do
if [ $SERVER != $HOST ]
then
echo $SERVER
rcp -p $FILENAME $SERVER:$FILENAME
fi
done

You might be better off with NIS/NIS+ but this is the simple solution.

Pete