Copying Trusted System Passwd

[Acxiom Unix Team]

I was wondering if anyone could offer some advice. We have 2 machines in a Service Guard Cluster and they are Trusted. Up until April this year we have rp8420a (pa-risc) systems running 11.11 now we have rx8640s (IA-64) running 11.23 Mission Critical OS.

What we used to do was simply have a cronjob that copied /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /tcb/files/auth (and everything below this) and lastly the ./secure are and everything below that. it copied all this using rcp.

This job used to run every 3 hours and copy the live data to the standby box in case we needed to switch and it worked perfectly. Since switching kit and going to an Itanium Architecture we have had huge problems doing this. We have users that despite being totally disabled as far as password aging and inactivity dates time out every night and all sorts of other issues.

So my question is, does anyone have any ideas on the best way to replicate the password/group info across between two machines in a way that actually works???

[Jeeshan]

LDAP should be the best choice.

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Give a try at rdist or even better rsync?

All the best
Victor

[Acxiom Unix Team]

No longer at the company i was when i posted this question. So closing thread now.