Sync of samba passwords between two UNIX samba servers possible?

[Christian Barth]

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have set up two seperate AIX4.2.1 samba servers, and due to this, every
> time a user changes his Novell password, they (or more likely, I) have to
> change their passwords on both seperate samba servers (login is duplicating
> the novel/NT login password combination so that the filesystems are mapped
> automatically when they boot up).
> 
> My question is :-
> 
> Is it possible to synchronise two UNIX samba servers so that one updates
> the samba passwords of the other (A kind of Master/Slave setup, maybe???)?
> If yes, how is it done (detailed)?
> 
> If not? Is there an alternative setup method which avoids the duplication
> of password changing at every stage.
> 
> I can't really muck around with the NT password system as this is administered
> by another department and the same goes for the UNIX password propagation,
> which is done by Tivoli.
> 
> Any useful reponse and tips to this problem would be welcome.
If you use plaintext passwords: use NIS and have the passwords and 
accounts syncted.
If you use encrypted passwords: use NIS for the accounts and set 
"password server = xyz" in smb.conf in on of the servers, probably 
the NIS slave.
If you want fault tolerance (network failier, working second if the 
first stopps...) you can use rsync.

Christian


 
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> Gary Heath - UNIX administrator/NT and UNIX System Release Manager
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