Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:51:37 +0100 From: Robin Vley <viper@fx-services.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine Message-ID: <45897829.1040802@fx-services.com> In-Reply-To: <200612201106.03880.kirk@strauser.com> References: <458964AB.2080400@edpausa.com> <200612201106.03880.kirk@strauser.com>
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Kirk Strauser wrote:
>> i doubt that just copying over /etc/passwd and master.passwd will work .
> You'd also need to pick up /etc/{s,}pwd.db - the compiled versions of those
> files.
I just read in another post that you can compile them using pwd_mkdb,
that was news for me. I just want to confirm that just copying (rsyncing
in our case) the .db files works just fine.
We do it to a mirror of our webhosting platform, all logins work just
fine on the mirrored machine.
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Robin Vley
F/X Services Managed Hosting
http://www.fx-services.com
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