On Wednesday 20 December 2006 07:28, stas khromoy wrote: > hey folks > > we are working on building a failover server. > now everything is going along pretty nicely. (knock on wood) > > so the question of the day. > is there a way to replicate the password files ? > > i doubt that just copying over /etc/passwd and master.passwd will work .
It will work fine as long as you run pwd_mkdb after copying or changing any of the files. Also, you can use vipw to edit the list. It runs pwd_mkdb after you write and exit. See the relevant man pages for more info. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise Travel \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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