[CentOS] etc passwd and groups file

Wed Jul 29 16:48:37 UTC 2009
Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>

At Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:13:46 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

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> Hi,
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> 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?

Check out OpenLDAP:

http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/ch-ldap.html

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