Re: [LUNI] Symlinking /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow

From: Martin Maney (maney@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Feb 03 2001 - 09:52:52 CST

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    On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 06:14:30AM -0800, Herbie Herbert wrote:
    > Has anyone hit this one before. I'm trying to share my passwd and
    > shadow files to multiple machines. I move /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to a
    > ...
    > That is until you add a newuser using useradd. Then the link is broken and
    > //etc/passwd and etc/shadow are real files on the local system again. Does
    > /anyone have a better way to do this so that this doesn't happen?

    This sounds like the kind of thing that Sun's "yellow pages", now called
    NIS, was designed to deal with.

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