From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 22 6:11: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kciLink.com [205.252.34.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 751E337B423 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 06:10:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [205.252.34.3]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30BD52E443 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:10:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8MDAZv31299; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:10:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from khera) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14795.23115.58191.605588@onceler.kciLink.com> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:10:35 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for change to /etc/rc script In-Reply-To: <20000921181057.A61901@carroll.com> References: <20000921130109.Y9141@fw.wintelcom.net> <200009212009.e8LK9m113036@orthanc.ab.ca> <20000921181057.A61901@carroll.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 11) "Carlsbad Caverns" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "DT" == Damien Tougas writes: DT> I would disagree with you there. We do not want to have root password DT> files on hundreds of thin client workstations, if we have to change DT> the root password for those workstations, we want to change it once. rdist is your friend. Here's a nice simple rdist file to send around the password and group files: --cut here-- ETCFILES = ( /etc/{group,master.passwd} ) ALLHOSTS = ( ws1 ws2 ws3 ) etc: ${ETCFILES} -> ${ALLHOSTS} install -owhole; special /etc/master.passwd "pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd"; --cut here-- the "-owhole" option is for rdist6. if you use the stock rdist, change it to "-w". -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 GPG & MIME spoken here http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message