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From: Vinay Bannai <vinay@agni.nuko.com>
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Subject: Need a common passwd file among machines
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Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 22:12:54 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi folks,

I need a common passwd file that is shared by a FreeBSD machine, Linux
machine, Solaris and a SunOS machine. I do not want to use NIS. 
I thought of using rdist to distribute the passwd file among all these
machines but could not because some of them use shadow passwd files and
others don't. Also, I am not sure the passwd encryption is the same on all
these platforms. 

More generally, the reason I am using this approach is to make the
developement of code easier by using cvs. I have one machine exporting the
cvs source tree and others mount it. To keep the same uids, I need to
share the passwd files. Does anyone have a better suggestions?

Thanks
Vinay