Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:16:04 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> To: stas khromoy <stas@edpausa.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine Message-ID: <20061220121604.13fc768d.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <458964AB.2080400@edpausa.com> References: <458964AB.2080400@edpausa.com>
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In response to stas khromoy <stas@edpausa.com>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > hey folks > > we are working on building a failover server. > now everything is going along pretty nicely. (knock on wood) > > so the question of the day. > is there a way to replicate the password files ? > > i doubt that just copying over /etc/passwd and master.passwd will work . Actually, it's not much harder than that. The only step you're missing is running pwd_mkdb on the files after they've been copied, you can easily add that to your failover process. Although, it may be worthwhile to investigate kerberos or LDAP if there's any chance at all that this might grow into a larger desire to replicate user accounts. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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