<SNIP>
when done manually, but I'm not aware of any good, free, tools to do that.
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I have not tried this but in theory couldn't you use a cron scheduled
rsync job to keep the files in sync?
"Post, Mark K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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James,
Are you talking about system administrator accounts, or user accounts? As
Thomas said, using LDAP, with or without Kerberos, etc., would be a good
idea, but _not_ for those accounts that need to be able to login to fix
problems with those kinds of tools. You won't be happy if LDAP isn't
working, and you can't login to fix it, because both your account and the
root account need LDAP to be available.
Keeping things consistent across images for those so-called "local"
accounts
isn't particularly easy, when done manually, but I'm not aware of any
good,
free, tools to do that. What I've done, when creating new images, is copy
the parts of /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow that have UIDs for real people to
the new system, append it to the production copies, and then run a script
that copies their existing home directories from a "source" system, and
then
does a "chown -R " on it.
Mark Post
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James
Melin
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What is the best method to duplicate the user list, GID/UID assignments
for
users on multiple Linux guests and keep them consistent?
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