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From: Yves Lepage <yves@CC.McGill.CA>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 97 09:23:59 -0400
To: Vinay Bannai <vinay@agni.nuko.com>
Subject: Re: Need a common passwd file among machines
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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


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From: Vinay Bannai <vinay@agni.nuko.com>
Subject: Need a common passwd file among machines
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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