Carlos Santana wrote: > Hi, > > I need to maintain a same user/group list on multiples systems. Can we > just copy the same passwd and groups file on all machines? > If we create a new user on one system then I will need to copy this to > all other systems. This is quite cumbersome. Any suggestions? > the old fashion way of doing this was NIS ... but I'm with everyone else in saying go with LDAP directory services, and further, use a NFS automount for their home directories.