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Subject: Re: multihost master.passwd sync
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On Tue, 27 May 2003, Mike Hoskins wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2003, Andy Harrison wrote:
> > Just wondered if anyone had any suggestions about syncing up master.passwd
> > files between multiple machines that didn't involve allowing root login
> > remotely?  The users need to be able to log in remotely and own files on the
> > different machines.
> /usr/ports/net/rsync.

Also,

/usr/ports/sysutils/cfengine[2]

It's working nicely here, but rsync is easier to setup and maintain.  The
nice thing with cfengine is that it can know about "groups" of servers
which may be slightly different.  Here, for example, it pushes password
updates to FreeBSD, Solaris and Linux servers.

-mrh

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