>Hi all,
>
>I have a customer with the following question....
>
>I'm curious on what the best way to propagate all the user accounts on 
>the global zone down to the zones that are already created.
>The only way that I  know is to just copy the files needed like 
>/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, etc. Is there a way to inherit these config 
>files
>during the zone creation in order to skip the manual copy of these files 
>if the accounts stay the same?? They will need home directories
>also.


Just like you would share them between ordinary systems: using a 
nameservice.


Home directories are more problematic; you will need to loopback mount 
them into the local zones.

Casper

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