Keeping /etc/passwds in sync

[william pink]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> wrote:

> 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.
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Yeah I would of said a Autossh tunnel with a rsync cron job running
periodically would do the job
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