Synchronizing passwords between hosts

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 02:58:20PM -0400, Eric wrote:
> What is the "right" way to synchronize passwords between hosts?

On a medium-to-large scale, Kerberos and LDAP. On a small scale, NIS.

> There are two machines set up, one FC6 and one F7, and I'd like any 
> password changes on one to also show up on the other.

On a *tiny* scale like two machines, though, how about "remember to change
passwords in both places"?

> Does it make sense to try to NFS-mount /etc/shadow from one machine on the 
> other?

No. :)


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