Look around this: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/index.html a colleague tests it to replicate files (a partition with data, no /etc or other core files, but it worth the try) between a Debian and an openBSD, it works great. ________________________________ Pierre-Stéphane BATON DI - OI/IT Consultant Trasys-OSI Support informatique Unix/Linux E01-H14-L44 - Tel :+32 (0)71 442797 Alcatel Alenia Space ETCA (DI/SYS) Rue Chapelle BEAUSSART, 101 B-6032 Mont-sur-Marchienne "Chris St. Pierre" <stpierre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Envoyé par : redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx 04/08/2006 16:05 Veuillez répondre à General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> A General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> cc Objet Re: rysnc /etc/passwd files I'm not sure why you'd want to do this when there are so many good, free LDAP servers out there. If you really need user information to be consistent across many machines, you need to be looking at a network-aware user information store. If you're new to LDAP, OpenLDAP is a good place to start; if you've used LDAP before, or are up for a challenge, you might look at Fedora DS. Either one is far superior to rsyncing passwd files. Chris St. Pierre Unix Systems Administrator Nebraska Wesleyan University On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, James Marcinek wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to write a script that will copy the needed security files from one > system to another. The reason is to facilitate clustering, though I could see > it being used to centralize accounts and with NFS $HOME directories it could > work... > > Granted that one allows root to do this, which I intend not to... > > I want to make sure that I get all of the necessary files: > > /etc/passwd > /etc/group > /etc/shadow > /etc/gshadow > > Am I missing any? I also understand that it is possible to use other > authentication config's. I would also be interested in knowing of any > differences and if there's any easy way to determine which is implemented, if > so. > > Thanks, > > James > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subjecthttps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
