freebsd security - Sep 2004 - sharing /etc/passwd

How 'bout PAM?  /usr/ports/security/pam_ldap.  If you have machines that
can't do PAM, perhaps NIS is the way to go (assuming, of course, you're
behind a firewall).  You can store login information in LDAP like you want,
then use a home-grown script to extract the information to a NIS map.  Or,
if you have a Solaris 8 machine lying around, you can cut out the middle
step and use Sun's NIS server which can backend directly into LDAP.

Cheers - Erick

At Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 07:02:09PM -0700, David Bear said this:
:: 
:: I need to sync /etc/passwd and /etc/group among multiple machines.  I was
:: thinking ldap would be a good method but am concerned about
:: 
:: 1) the most secure way to do it
:: 2) the most stable
:: 3) things I don't know about this but should...
:: 
:: any pointers to man pages/docs would be appreciated.
:: 
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On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 07:02:09PM -0700, David Bear
wrote:
> 
> I need to sync /etc/passwd and /etc/group among multiple machines.  I was
> thinking ldap would be a good method but am concerned about
> 
> 1) the most secure way to do it
> 2) the most stable
> 3) things I don't know about this but should...
> 
> any pointers to man pages/docs would be appreciated.
	Hmm... how about rsync? /usr/ports/net/rsync

	-steve