Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
OK, will absolutely go this route.  Anything against running two NIS
servers on the two redundant servers?  Kinda aiming to a contained
environment.
Vasiliy Boulytchev
Colorado Information Technologies, Inc.
http://www.coinfotech.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Diaz [mailto:bdiaz at aullox.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 5:09 PM
To: Boulytchev, Vasiliy
Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] Synching users, /etc/passwd /etc/shadow
Boulytchev, Vasiliy wrote:
> Ladies and Gents,
>   Can anyone point me in the right direction.  I wish to synch my 
> users between the nodes.
> 
YP/NIS/NIS+ is the service you're looking for. Most distros include a 
yp{server|client|tools} package. There's a howto in 
http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/NIS-HOWTO/index.html