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Date:      Sat, 28 May 2011 12:01:02 -0400
From:      Robert Simmons <rsimmons0@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: remote password change
Message-ID:  <BANLkTik0SoEg%2BEDuggM8U0SDf41Wt8LwEA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 8:17 AM, pepe <plaine@gmail.com> 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



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