Re: rsync /etc/passwd

[Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 10:23:43AM -0500, Tym Rehm <trehm fitnessquest com> wrote:
| I'm creating a mirrored backup of my mail server. I want to just rsync
| /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group. Does anyone know of any problems
| with just doing this vs LDAP or NIS. Thanks.

There shouldn't be any fundamental problems that way provided you only
ever do updates (add users, set passwords etc) on the source host).
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