[OpenAFS] Distributing passwd

[Todd M. Lewis]

We use a home-grown tool suite.  We keep a file in AFS that contains 
what would be everybody's /etc/passwd entry with an extra field on the 
end of comma delimited properties indicating services people are 
subscribed to.  Publicly available AFS clients periodically rebuild 
their /etc/passwd files by selecting entries with appropriate properties 
and combining them with local ids from a locally managed config file.

We'd be in more of a hurry to migrate the whole thing over to LDAP if it 
weren't working just fine as it is...
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Todd_Lewis@unc.edu

fronils wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> how does people go about the problem of distributing files like /etc/passwd to 
> clients? Using NIS or something else?
> 
> Thanks,
> Frode Nilsen

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