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David Land
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‎04-22-2005 07:01 AM

‎04-22-2005 07:01 AM

Sync'ing Shadow Passwords

I have two systems that I need to keep their password files in sync. Right now I have the passwd file and the group file being copied over from the Production machine to the Stand by machine.

Can I do the same thing with the shadow password files when I implement this product?
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A. Clay Stephenson
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‎04-22-2005 07:12 AM

‎04-22-2005 07:12 AM

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Re: Sync'ing Shadow Passwords

Yes, that will work. This is rather Mickey Mouse when compared to the "right" way to this (e.g. LDAP) but your approach will work even if using a trusted system. You might look into using rdist to sync the files.
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RAC_1
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‎04-22-2005 07:13 AM

‎04-22-2005 07:13 AM

Re: Sync'ing Shadow Passwords

In that case you will have to copy /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow too.

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