Summary: Duplicating accounts across multiple systems without NIS

From: <sun_at_cambridge.digistar.com>
Date: Tue Jul 17 2001 - 11:56:14 EDT
> I need to duplicate user accounts on a central server to other
> machines but I need to do this without using NIS.  Can anyone share
> their experiences doing the same and any suggestions how to put it
> into place?

There were a few dozen replies, all of which were mostly one of a few
varied suggestions:

. rdist
. rsync with scp/ssh (http://rsync.samba.org)
. sftp
. cfengine
. LDAP+iPlanet 

. combinations thereof



Many thanks to those who replied!
Received on Tue Jul 17 16:56:14 2001

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