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Date:      Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:10:35 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Request for change to /etc/rc script
Message-ID:  <14795.23115.58191.605588@onceler.kciLink.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000921181057.A61901@carroll.com>
References:  <20000921130109.Y9141@fw.wintelcom.net> <200009212009.e8LK9m113036@orthanc.ab.ca> <20000921181057.A61901@carroll.com>

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>>>>> "DT" == Damien Tougas <damien@carroll.com> writes:

DT> I would disagree with you there. We do not want to have root password
DT> files on hundreds of thin client workstations, if we have to change
DT> the root password for those workstations, we want to change it once.

rdist is your friend.  Here's a nice simple rdist file to send around
the password and group files:

--cut here--
ETCFILES = ( /etc/{group,master.passwd} )

ALLHOSTS = ( ws1 ws2 ws3 )

etc:
${ETCFILES} -> ${ALLHOSTS}
        install -owhole;
        special /etc/master.passwd "pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd";
--cut here--

the "-owhole" option is for rdist6.  if you use the stock rdist,
change it to "-w".

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