[OpenAFS] Distributing passwd

[Ian Delahorne]

Richard Brittain <richard@northstar.dartmouth.edu> writes:

> > > how does people go about the problem of distributing files like
> > > /etc/passwd to clients? Using NIS or something else?
> >
> > We use themis, arla's version of package / mpp.
>
> I don't bother with mpp, that always seemed like overkill, but it
> may just be that I never took the time to figure it out properly.

We use (or are going to use) mpp for having one "root" package
definition per sysname. That file includes other parts of
configurations depending on what flags update-disk script sets. A lot
of heavy magic is in there :-)
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