Re: sync root passwords?

[Mike Egglestone <megglestone@heritage.sd57.bc.ca>]

Quoting Rich Puhek <rpuhek@etnsystems.com>:

> Hopefully, you're using ssh on all your machines. If so (and if you're 
> set up to use public keys for authentication, instead of passwords) you 
> could do something like:
>
I do have one server that already uses public keys and ssh's into the servers 
automagically for rysnc backups. Your little script should work great.
I'll give it a go.
Thanks!

Mike

 
> #/bin/sh
> 
> servers="server1 server2 server3 server4";
> 
> for server in $servers; do
>     ssh $server passwd root $1;
> done;
> 
> which would ssh into every server in the list $servers, and change the 
> root password to the given arguement.
> 
> You may want to look at NIS for centeralized management, as well.
> 
> I would not recommend directly copying the shadow entry. You've got a 
> lot of ways for something to go bad there, especially with lots of 
> machines...
> 
> --Rich
> 
> 

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