On Jul 22, 2008, at 10:35 AM, Whiteman, Mark wrote:
I guess my point is, if I deploy from a "gold" image, I'll probably want to change passwords on the various clones. If I put patches/ fixes onto my "gold" image and want to redeploy it, I'll go back to the original passwords. So, when I redploy, could I simply take a backup of the /etc/passwd, group, shadow and copy them back over the original members that existed on the "gold" image ?
Yes. Although, as David points out, for scalability, it really is better to keep this stuff centralized somewhere. LDAP+krb5 (plus Microsoft schema extensions, alas) is pretty much the way to do this these days. Not that AD is the *best* answer necessarily, but it's an OK answer, and it's pretty ubiquitous. Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
