Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 22:37:27 -0500 (EST) From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> To: <security@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sharing /etc/passwd Message-ID: <20011107223549.B80839-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111071900280.24824-100000@moroni.pp.asu.edu>
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On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, 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.
NIS is the standard way to do this. I dunno if FreeBSD supports
NIS+, which buys you encryption when the maps are pushed from masters
to slaves, and for ypbind queries to ypserv (standard NIS does this in
cleartext).
--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.)
behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net
I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs.
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