From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Nov 16 12:27:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net (bsdie.rwsystems.net [209.197.223.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 280F314D22 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 12:27:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jwyatt@rwsystems.net) Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net([209.197.223.2]) (1573 bytes) by bsdie.rwsystems.net via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 14:27:08 -0600 (CST) (Smail-3.2.0.106 1999-Mar-31 #1 built 1999-Aug-7) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 14:27:06 -0600 (CST) From: James Wyatt To: "Jeffrey J. Libman" Cc: Evren Yurtesen , Greg W , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem with the web pages of users In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I usually recommend just pushing user accounts and leaving an admin stub in the slave machines that gets user accounts added to it. It prevents a NULL or damaged passwd/group file from corrupting all your machines at once. (It has been done, 8{( thus this approach). As I remember rdist will allow you to run pwd_mkdb on the slaves. For security, you can use ssh as the transport, IIRC. - Jy@ On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Jeffrey J. Libman wrote: > no...i use a script that calls rdist to maintain the passwd and group > files on several systems. > > On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > But you also use NIS or not ? > > > > On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Jeffrey J. Libman wrote: > > > my users' home directories are all on a file system which i nfs mount to > > > all of the servers...this includes the web server, where > > > www.wantabe.com/~username works. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message