Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 02:21:12 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: Christopher J Ceska <chris@u2.todiefor.com> Cc: Javier Henderson <javier@kjsl.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, Brian Mitchell <brian@firehouse.net> Subject: Re: Question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980301021751.25924B-100000@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980301020225.29664A-100000@shell.firehouse.net>
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On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, Brian Mitchell wrote: > > Christopher J Ceska writes: > > > > > What would be a good method to have two servers run the same passwd file? > > > > Run VMS? > > well, kinda overkill when all the original posted needed is nis. To each > his own, I suppose -- even delusional vms freaks. So Chris, leaving aside this stuff, you really want to take a look at the yp(4) manpage for one possible way to do what you desire. This is the Yellowpages/NIS service as thought of (I believe) by Sun -- it provides distributed password, group files, as well as local modifications of them specified in a wild-cardy kind of way. Programs like passwd and chfn know how to deal with it, so it doesn't have the implementation mess from the point of view of users that a distributed file system solution can have. On the other hand, there are some security issues involved (such as a lack of cryptography support -- run this on trusted lans only). Robert N Watson Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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