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

From: Keith T. Garner (kgarner@kgarner.com)
Date: Sat Feb 03 2001 - 11:58:55 CST

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    On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 09:52:52, Martin Maney said:
    > 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.

    LDAP would be a good choice as well.

    Keith 

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