CraftyTech <[email protected]> writes:
> I'm new to puppet, and I'd like to know: Is there a formal best practices
> guide for syncing { /etc/passwd, shadow, group, hosts} across clients from
> the master?
You will probably find the most common "best practice" answer to this is
"don't do it that way": the risks probably outweigh the cost, and using a
proper system like LDAP, NIS, or puppet user bits is probably less painful.
> For instance; is it a better practice to make a hard link to these files and
> share the link, as opposed to just sharing the files directly via a target
> in fileserver.conf?
I would, simply because you reduce the list of exposed files that way.
Daniel
By "would" I mean "would deploy LDAP, but if you insist", of course.
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