Re: sync root passwords?
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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