Keeping /etc/passwds in sync

[Nix]

On 16 Apr 2009, Dan Ros verbalised:

> 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 tried to set up Hesiod a while back. There's native support in glibc
and everything, and the idea is lovely, but the way it breaks getpwent()
is really annoying. So I'm back to rsync for now.