Keeping /etc/passwds in sync

[Paul M]

Dan Ros wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Longman <clug at gasops.co.uk> wrote:
>> What's the best way of keeping an /etc/passwd (and /etc/shadow, group
>> etc) in sync between systems which need to have the same accounts?  The
>> systems will *not* be on the same network.  One will be a private host
>> and one will be a public host (though may need to keep more than two
>> hosts in sync).
> 
> NIS/LDAP/PAM-MySQL etc are great but might be a bit cumbersome to set up.

I believe that multi-master LDAP which actually works should be here
soon - a colleague got it working with help from openldap team and fed
back the fixes. In combination with forthcoming samba, it'll be a pretty
strong contender for people wanting to avoid windows servers!

synchronising ssh keys is probably easier than trying to push updated
shadow files around!