Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thanks for the help guys ! Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 11:28:27AM -0500, stas khromoy wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hey folks we are working on building a failover server. now everything is going along pretty nicely. (knock on wood) so the question of the day. is there a way to replicate the password files ? i doubt that just copying over /etc/passwd and master.passwd will work . Almost. You just need to make sure database stuff is updated properly. Check out pwd_mkdb(8) and vipw(8) and man master.passwd and man passwd. jerry thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBRYwRJNbpM15f9s9nAQI4fQP9FR2s+YClP9fWLN1uBHH/0gBr6zl2ai6S tIMNCav8rfj+xZlWJiN723WBp5U9O3msv7edHD1jPUfkVblZOp096jI976nYfE1D vVvaQ5qAtTk3zJ/SsgKkusOIG6J1WCmif+WY26VBEkHLLkIvUI3AeCPyygRtbdyv Kg4YsT4IlJk= =IlD/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hey folks we are working on building a failover server. now everything is going along pretty nicely. (knock on wood) so the question of the day. is there a way to replicate the password files ? i doubt that just copying over /etc/passwd and master.passwd will work . thanks -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBRYlkq9bpM15f9s9nAQKnRwP/ZXN9rExeMteW6GW60a1sECMgoxJ+s0lv v3BrIWKoqV+seWs1yPTJx8y4k46ji55wMbWHwKy3tK0d1Ok/uaJRkS8NYlcQxJJo UgDwW+sAovyG7QpLCGMJp5qCSYii1WPGa/O1NOzMjKerVIpT7AuO5s5nXWd0hg1S JuQnoqLNhL8= =MXb4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine
In response to stas khromoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hey folks we are working on building a failover server. now everything is going along pretty nicely. (knock on wood) so the question of the day. is there a way to replicate the password files ? i doubt that just copying over /etc/passwd and master.passwd will work . Actually, it's not much harder than that. The only step you're missing is running pwd_mkdb on the files after they've been copied, you can easily add that to your failover process. Although, it may be worthwhile to investigate kerberos or LDAP if there's any chance at all that this might grow into a larger desire to replicate user accounts. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 07:28, stas khromoy wrote: hey folks we are working on building a failover server. now everything is going along pretty nicely. (knock on wood) so the question of the day. is there a way to replicate the password files ? i doubt that just copying over /etc/passwd and master.passwd will work . It will work fine as long as you run pwd_mkdb after copying or changing any of the files. Also, you can use vipw to edit the list. It runs pwd_mkdb after you write and exit. See the relevant man pages for more info. Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise Travel \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com --- pgpOWUclG4h7e.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 10:28 am, stas khromoy wrote:
i doubt that just copying over /etc/passwd and master.passwd will work .
You'd also need to pick up /etc/{s,}pwd.db - the compiled versions of those
files.
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Kirk Strauser
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Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine
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On 12/20/06 9:06 AM, Kirk Strauser wrote:
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 10:28 am, stas khromoy wrote:
i doubt that just copying over /etc/passwd and master.passwd will work .
You'd also need to pick up /etc/{s,}pwd.db - the compiled versions of those
files.
Dunno if this works on FreeBSD, but with OpenBSD I have successfully
copied accounts between machines like this:
1. Run vipw on both machines and copy and paste the user accounts. vipw
works like vi.
Note that this step assumes the same environment exists on the source
and destination machines. If, for example, a user's shell is bash on the
source machine, then /usr/local/bin/bash must exist on the destination
box as well.
2. Copy and paste the relevant user groups from /etc/group. If users are
members of other groups (e.g., wheel), ensure that info matches as well.
3. On the source machine, run:
rsync -avz /home/username/ destination_machine:/home
This will move username's home directory over, preserving ownership and
permissions for all directories and files. Note the trailing slash on
the source directory.
This probably needs to be run as root, which means that at least
temporarily you need to go into the destination machine's
/etc/ssh/sshd_config and add this line:
PermitRootLogin yes
and then restart sshd like this:
kill -HUP `cat /var/run/sshd.pid`
If you don't normally want ssh access for root, be sure to undo that
change in sshd_config once you're done.
dn
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Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine
Kirk Strauser wrote:
i doubt that just copying over /etc/passwd and master.passwd will work .
You'd also need to pick up /etc/{s,}pwd.db - the compiled versions of those
files.
I just read in another post that you can compile them using pwd_mkdb,
that was news for me. I just want to confirm that just copying (rsyncing
in our case) the .db files works just fine.
We do it to a mirror of our webhosting platform, all logins work just
fine on the mirrored machine.
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Robin Vley
F/X Services Managed Hosting
http://www.fx-services.com
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Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 11:28:27AM -0500, stas khromoy wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hey folks we are working on building a failover server. now everything is going along pretty nicely. (knock on wood) so the question of the day. is there a way to replicate the password files ? i doubt that just copying over /etc/passwd and master.passwd will work . Almost. You just need to make sure database stuff is updated properly. Check out pwd_mkdb(8) and vipw(8) and man master.passwd and man passwd. jerry thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
