On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 02:23:37PM +0200, Markus TXrnqvist wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 07:05:26PM +0100, Henning Glawe wrote: > >1) copying passwd is not a good idea: it contains many dynamic entries > > generated by packages (and thus changes quite often) > > Well, in this case it's pretty much a good idea :) > I'd like to company sysadmin team to be able to log in, if they > change their passwords, it's not an installation problem.
What about having a locked root password and installing your sysadmin public ssh keys instead? > Customer accounts are added manually afterwards in either case. On the YP server, we run a script to extract user accounts (strip everything with UID below 1000) and upload this to FAIconfig CVS periodically... It's still work in progress, but it's quite close: http://pandora.aei.mpg.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/faiconfig/ Of course, hints are welcome... Cheers, Steffen
