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From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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Subject: Re: syncing user passwd information between servers
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In response to Noah <admin2@enabled.com>:

> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to figure out the Best admininstrative way to do the following:
> 
> We have two FreeBSD 6.2 servers and want to keep the passwd files in 
> sync so all the same users can log into each machine, their UID's match, 
> and when the update the password on one machine the other machine gets 
> the password.  When we add the user to one machine then the other 
> machine has an additional user too.
> 
> What is the best scheme that we can devise to get this working 
> technically well?

In addition to the other options that have been presented, you may want to
consider Kerberos.

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Bill Moran
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