From owner-freebsd-security Wed Nov 7 19:37:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-28-168.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0473937B418 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 19:37:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (topperwein.dyndns.org [192.168.168.10]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fA83bWF17460 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 22:37:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 22:37:27 -0500 (EST) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: Chris BeHanna To: Subject: Re: sharing /etc/passwd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20011107223549.B80839-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> 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 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message