From owner-freebsd-security Wed Nov 7 18:18:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from spitfire.velocet.net (spitfire.velocet.net [216.138.223.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DA6C37B419 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 18:18:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from nomad.tor.lets.net (H74.C220.tor.velocet.net [216.138.220.74]) by spitfire.velocet.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A9F044AB66 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 02:18:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: (qmail 7837 invoked by uid 1001); 8 Nov 2001 02:13:16 -0000 Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 21:13:16 -0500 From: Steve Shorter To: David Bear Cc: FreeBSD Security List Subject: Re: sharing /etc/passwd Message-ID: <20011107211316.A7830@nomad.lets.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from David.Bear@asu.edu on Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 07:02:09PM -0700 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 On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 07:02:09PM -0700, David Bear wrote: > > 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. Hmm... how about rsync? /usr/ports/net/rsync -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message