Re: Password File Sync Script
Matt Hemingway <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.admin |
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| Organization | PCNAlert |
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What if you went the other way? Instead of pushing the files, the clients "grab" them. Would allowing root to ssh in only to the "main" server be a problem? -Matt On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:44:01 -0700 "Sashikanth Madduri" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I am writing a script to update password files from the server to > all the clients in the network. > > I will be copying the following files periodically to all the clients: > > /etc/passwd > /etc/shadow > /etc/group > > scp is one option to do the remote copying. But, root ssh is disabled > in the clients and I cannot use scp. Is there any alternative > way(other than scp) to do this. Do I have to enable root ssh inorder > to do a remote copy of the above files. Please help. > > PS: I am not using NIS for password management. > > Thank you. > > Sashikanth Madduri. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to [email protected] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html