Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:46:02 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: stas khromoy <stas@edpausa.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine Message-ID: <20061220184602.GB30425@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <458964AB.2080400@edpausa.com> References: <458964AB.2080400@edpausa.com>
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On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 11:28:27AM -0500, stas khromoy wrote: > -----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 . Almost. You just need to make sure database stuff is updated properly. Check out pwd_mkdb(8) and vipw(8) and man master.passwd and man passwd. ////jerry > > thanks
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