Even lighter weight directory protocol?

Allan Jude allanjude at freebsd.org
Fri Dec 30 01:32:50 UTC 2016


On 2016-12-29 20:30, George Mitchell wrote:
> On 12/29/16 15:50, Alan Somers wrote:
>> [...]
>> Many years ago I used cfengine to sync /etc/password and similar
>> files.  But it's really not as good as a real directory protocol.  For
>> one thing, users can only change their passwords on the master server.
>> [...]
> 
> Actually, in my situation, this is a feature instead of a bug.  But
> I'm too lazy to set up cfengine, and I think I'll just use cron and
> rasync after all.  Thanks for your response!              -- George
> 

Make sure you have it run pwd_mkdb after copying master.passwd

-- 
Allan Jude


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