Re: [PLUG] Two passwd files?

[Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu>]

I have code for this if anyone wants it.

It's in perl and it's a mess, but it works for my purposes.

Fred Ollinger (follinge@sas.upenn.edu)
CCN sysadmin

On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Paul wrote:

> Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
>
> >You could post-process locally with sed to change the root line:
> >
> >
>
> I came up with another idea.  On the "master" system, what about
> grep'ing out user account lines with UIDs 500 and above and placing them
> in a serperate file called something like "passwd.shared"?  Then, copy
> "passwd.shared" to the remote systems.  On the remote systems, append
> the "passwd.shared" file to the "passwd.local" file to form a new passwd
> file?
>
> So, on each system, the "passwd.local" file will contain all of the
> original, system specific accounts, minus any regular user accounts.
>  The regular user accounts will be added when "passwd.shared" is
> combined with "passwd.local" to form the new passwd file.
>
> Is that crazy?  Could all of the scripting take place on the server?
>
> I think that approach would work for groups and hosts as well.
>
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