[nflug] /home, MySQL and user replication

[Mark Musone]

NIS can "fall back" to local passwd/shadow/group files. You just really want user accounts in NIS.
All the local OS accounts should stay in their respective local password files.


Take a look at: http://uw713doc.sco.com/en/NET_nis/nisC.passwd.html
for an example on how to specify local and NIS passwd entries..


-Mark
 

On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 08:42:02AM -0500, Darin Perusich wrote:
> the easiest and most efficient method to do this would be to setup a NIS
> or LDAP services for your users/groups and use autofs to share /home to
> all of your systems. if you have a machine that you can use as a
> NIS/LDAP and NFS server it should be pretty simple. i would use LDAP
> over NIS personally but the choice is yours.
> 
> the only problem is replicating your passwd/shadow/group files is what
> to do if you have a mix of different distros on you network. the
> contents of said files are not likely to be the same between debian,
> SuSE, fedora, etc. if you have all debian systems then use ssh/scp to
> copy those files. use ssh-keygen to ssh keys on one machine as root,
> them copy the id_rsa.pub from that machine to authorized_key2 on the
> remote machine. you'll then be able to login with being prompted for a
> password/phrase and you can use scp to do the copy.
> 
> Wolfe, Robert wrote:
> > 
> > Recently installed Debian 4 on my other Sun Ultra 5 and would like to
> > replicate my /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files on that machine from my
> > Debian 3.1 machine along with all the /home directories as well so users can
> > use both the 3.1 and 4.0 boxes and still have the same files in their home
> > directories on both machines.  However, I am having a heck of a time trying
> > to figure this out and how to get it into a cron job.
> > 
> > Any pointers to information on an easy way to do this would be very much
> > greatly appreciated.
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Darin Perusich
> Unix Systems Administrator
> Cognigen Corporation
> 395 Youngs Rd.
> Williamsville, NY 14221
> Phone: 716-633-3463
> Email: darinper at cognigencorp.com
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