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Date:      Fri, 9 Mar 2007 07:33:50 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Noah <admin2@enabled.com>
Cc:        User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: syncing user passwd information between servers
Message-ID:  <20070309073350.4cf9c338.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <45F0D9A7.8000201@enabled.com>
References:  <45F0D9A7.8000201@enabled.com>

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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.

-- 
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com



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