Passwords sinchronize

[Marco Hernandez_1]

How can I sinchronize passwords between two machines, one is in production and the other one is in developement environment, and both they have trusted passwords. Any reasonable idea ??

[Denver Osborn]

Have you thought about NIS?

Check out document A4870278, this shows a way to setup NIS and Trusted. However, you'd have to untrust the system 1st to setup the NIS.

Hope this helps

[Denver Osborn]

correction -> only NIS+ at 11.0 works with trusted mode. so if you're at 10.X it's not an option for you to use NIS.

[Anthony Goonetilleke]

There was a similar post before that I replied to but here goes anyway..

You can use d a sort of encapsulation script that replaces the passwd command in essence what this would do is except the password and set it on the local machine and remote machine, alternativeley you can write a script to sync the password files. NIS would also be a good choice but if password sync is al you want it is a bit of an overkill.

[Christian Haug]

Another idea is to mount the filesystem with the passwd file and make a symbolic link on it. Advantage, you need no synchronisation daemon. This technic is used from HP for there diskless clusters too.