On November 23, 2003 03:21 pm, Keith Morse wrote: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > > I have multiple Redhat and Solaris boxes running with different accounts. > > I would like to keep all my user accounts and groups the same across all > > these boxes for easier management. NIS is not a option and I was > > wondering if you guys can recommend anything else to achieve this task. > > Any suggestions would be grately appreciated. Any howto's would be > > helpful as well :) > > Also a college based web site delineated the setup of ssh and rsync as a > replacement for NIS. MIT or CMU I believe but I don't remember exactly. > > A quick google search came up with: > > http://www.stone.nu/stuff/rsync+ssh/rsync+ssh/c10.html I was running into a similar problem with soalris machines running com. ssh and rh boxes running openssh, and most with different user id (and I like to use a diff passwd on each machine (security and I know which I logged into). I ended up installing both com & ssh on my wkstation, then ran scripts like ssh_servername that started the appropriate ssh client and sent the userid for that machine, presenting me with a passwd prompt. -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
