From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 24 15:50:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CE9116A52E for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:50:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from post5.inre.asu.edu (post5.inre.asu.edu [129.219.110.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FD9E43D1D for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:50:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from David.Bear@asu.edu) Received: from conversion.post5.inre.asu.edu by asu.edu (PMDF V6.1-1X6 #30769) id <0I4J00A01YGM3A@asu.edu> for freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:45:58 -0700 (MST) Received: from smtp.asu.edu (smtp.asu.edu [129.219.110.107]) <0I4J009GDYGLDS@asu.edu>; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:45:58 -0700 (MST) Received: from moroni.pp.asu.edu (moroni.pp.asu.edu [129.219.69.200]) (8.12.10/8.12.10/asu_smtp_relay,nullclient,tcp_wrapped) with ESMTP id i8OFjt71011178; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:45:55 -0700 (MST) Received: by moroni.pp.asu.edu (Postfix, from userid 500) id E4AE9E14; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:45:50 -0700 (MST) Received: from post1.inre.asu.edu (post1.inre.asu.edu [129.219.110.72]) by imap1.asu.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0/asu_cyrus,tcp_wrapped) with ESMTP id fA82IIX25418 for ; Wed, 07 Nov 2001 19:18:18 -0700 (MST) Received: from conversion.post1.inre.asu.edu by asu.edu (PMDF V6.1 #40110) David.Bear@asu.edu) ; Wed, 07 Nov 2001 19:18:18 -0700 (MST) Received: from spitfire.velocet.net (spitfire.velocet.net [216.138.223.227]) by asu.edu (PMDF V6.1 #40110) with ESMTP id <0GMG004UZMEHD8@asu.edu> for iddwb@IMAP1.ASU.EDU (ORCPT David.Bear@asu.edu); Wed, 07 Nov 2001 19:18:18 -0700 (MST) Received: from nomad.tor.lets.net (H74.C220.tor.velocet.net [216.138.220.74]) by spitfire.velocet.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 96C9D44AB63 for ; Thu, 08 Nov 2001 02:18:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: (qmail 7837 invoked by uid 1001); Thu, 08 Nov 2001 02:13:16 +0000 From: Steve Shorter In-reply-to: <"from David.Bear"@asu.edu> To: dwbear75@gmail.com Message-id: <20011107211316.A7830@nomad.lets.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline Old-To: David Bear User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Lines: 14 References: X-Keywords: X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 12:40:30 +0000 cc: FreeBSD Security List Subject: Re: sharing /etc/passwd X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Security issues [members-only posting] List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:50:05 -0000 X-Original-Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 21:13:16 -0500 X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:50:05 -0000 On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 07:02:09PM -0700, 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. Hmm... how about rsync? /usr/ports/net/rsync -steve