From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 17 10:33:01 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA09471 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 May 1995 10:33:01 -0700 Received: from leo.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.249]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA09459 for ; Wed, 17 May 1995 10:32:56 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by leo.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id BAA00268; Thu, 18 May 1995 01:32:13 +0800 Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 01:32:12 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-QUESTIONS-L Subject: Synchronizing passwd databases Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk If I wanted to synchronize the local passwd databases on a bunch of FreeBSD machines (not the NIS records), what is the best way of doing this? Is this recommended (or even possible)? So far I've been using an rdist script to distribute the pwd.db, spwd.db, master.passwd and passwd files to all the machines. Do I risk corrupting in-core structures this way? -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org