From owner-freebsd-security Wed Nov 7 18: 2:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from post2.inre.asu.edu (post2.inre.asu.edu [129.219.110.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D62C37B417 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 18:02:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from conversion.post2.inre.asu.edu by asu.edu (PMDF V6.1 #40111) id <0GMG00501LNM0J@asu.edu> for freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 07 Nov 2001 19:02:10 -0700 (MST) Received: from smtp.asu.edu (smtp.asu.edu [129.219.13.92]) by asu.edu (PMDF V6.1 #40111) with ESMTP id <0GMG003A4LNLGH@asu.edu> for freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 07 Nov 2001 19:02:09 -0700 (MST) Received: from moroni.pp.asu.edu (moroni.pp.asu.edu [129.219.120.183]) by smtp.asu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA25703 for ; Wed, 07 Nov 2001 19:02:09 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 19:02:09 -0700 (MST) From: David Bear Subject: sharing /etc/passwd X-X-Sender: To: FreeBSD Security List Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I need to sync /etc/passwd and /etc/group among multiple machines. I was thinking ldap would be a good method but am concerned about 1) the most secure way to do it 2) the most stable 3) things I don't know about this but should... any pointers to man pages/docs would be appreciated. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message