From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 28 16:01:03 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99BC8106566B for ; Sat, 28 May 2011 16:01:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsimmons0@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gy0-f182.google.com (mail-gy0-f182.google.com [209.85.160.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55DB68FC0C for ; Sat, 28 May 2011 16:01:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyg13 with SMTP id 13so1374164gyg.13 for ; Sat, 28 May 2011 09:01:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=6qJbzRFGaxSQoNS5CkgzK58aQmLB3vAeEE2jhc9v8F8=; b=vUXnGXU7gF1IGR7rUc8iLrECnNy7CWyhP+O+3glY4h0t5h6fE5yW+82ZXltd8s9Fq2 EsG+xjJU8xktJnB4Zp7+rmMI7jvtD1AB6ygbB7bajTYY2+M/PbtbX5mXzgwC8Qy9rNWG cHdqj7kky9pR7X65ItqAgPwFbRlT8HByaGb5M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=w/CosHqjGArkVVrTBoiQrUdKZBLNBXoNfHbnYorgEU/kIdSwEoXzPaB7/ZxdhfmnyK N23HO5K1wsQM7BguQluT03D/5sr6MDJ+6WdmxAATk64UV6xsblYUXvmu1h4oWWHKcjrO 712V7h1u3bFGBy7h/S0cYK3l0GPYlNCRL2HSE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.101.28.33 with SMTP id f33mr2240432anj.36.1306598462449; Sat, 28 May 2011 09:01:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.131.9 with HTTP; Sat, 28 May 2011 09:01:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 12:01:02 -0400 Message-ID: From: Robert Simmons To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: remote password change X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 16:01:03 -0000 On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 8:17 AM, pepe wrote: > I have two FreeBSD 8 servers running. Server A is for shell access and > server B for www pages. On B there is only scp/sftp access and no shell > login. > Now I'm looking for solution for people to be able to change password for > server B from inside server A. Or better yet, automatic migration of > password so if user changes password for server A it would change in server > B too. Are there some solutions to do this? NIS was mentioned, another option is Kerberos5. The effect would be the same: centralization of authentication. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kerberos5.html