Date: Mon, 21 Apr 97 09:23:59 -0400 From: Yves Lepage <yves@CC.McGill.CA> To: Vinay Bannai <vinay@agni.nuko.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need a common passwd file among machines Message-ID: <199704211324.JAA07127@maelstrom.cc.mcgill.ca> References: <199704200512.WAA16052@agni.nuko.com>
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Hi Vinay, What we do here is that we only maintain an old-unix passwd file with the passwords in. Then we use the pwconv utility on solaris to generate the shadow equivalent. On FreeBSD, you can do the same except you use the pwd_mkdb utility to generate the password database. I hope this helps, Yves Begin forwarded message: X-SMTP-Posting-Origin: ns3.harborcom.net (ns3.harborcom.net [206.158.4.7]) From: Vinay Bannai <vinay@agni.nuko.com> Subject: Need a common passwd file among machines To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 22:12:54 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi folks, I need a common passwd file that is shared by a FreeBSD machine, Linux machine, Solaris and a SunOS machine. I do not want to use NIS. I thought of using rdist to distribute the passwd file among all these machines but could not because some of them use shadow passwd files and others don't. Also, I am not sure the passwd encryption is the same on all these platforms. More generally, the reason I am using this approach is to make the developement of code easier by using cvs. I have one machine exporting the cvs source tree and others mount it. To keep the same uids, I need to share the passwd files. Does anyone have a better suggestions? Thanks Vinay
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