-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A really cheap and dirty approach is to rsync your /etc/passwd, /etc/group /etc/shadow
This gets messy if all the *Nix boxes are not running the same distro. simon wrote: > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:42:00AM -0600, Mitchell Brown wrote: >> Definetly - well how about just the local unix passwords for my user and >> root on different boxes? Can that be done? > > Yes. But it depends exactly what you want to achieve. > > NIS 'Yellow Pages' is the tradional old way, but isn't particularly > secure. > > LDAP is a possibility, but you need to either have connectivity to > server or have local servers and sync them. > > You could even run a Samba/Domain controller and authenicate against > that (I believe). > > > If I were you I'd start with google and looking at what PAM supports. > Simon. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEfeJhwRXgH3rKGfMRAnY/AJ4+QUkflP33pQPHU8d0b4ghcX8sAACfY9Ev 9ruUuCL1/UqKBStfioQvN4A= =djS3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
