Re: Password Questions

circut_at_hackthisbox.org
Date: 12/04/03

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    Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:01:59 -0600 (CST)
To: Eric Scuccimarra <eric@quovad.com>

    > Not sure if this is the place to ask this but I'm not sure where else to.

    This place will do fine.

    > I have two RedHat 9 boxes. I want them to have the same users and
    > passwords. Can I copy the user, password and shadow password files from one
    > machine to the other or do they have some sort of built-in encryption that
    > will mess things up?

    You should look into NIS or NIS+. From the NIS-HOWTO (avalible at:
    http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO )

    <------ *snip* { ------>
    NIS
        Network Information Service, a service that provides information, that
        has to be known throughout the network, to all machines on the network.
        There is support for NIS in Linux's standard libc library, which in the
        following text is referred to as "traditional NIS".

    NIS+
        Network Information Service (Plus :-), essentially NIS on steroids. NIS+
        is designed by Sun Microsystems Inc. as a replacement for NIS with better
        security and better handling of _large_ installations.
    <------ } *snip* ------>

    With these you can share the password file like you are asking. Also try
    to read the manpage for: 'ypbind' Both will help you greatly with this
    task.

                                                    -circut

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