 | | | User sync between 2 servers | User sync between 2 servers 2005-03-22 - By Ed Wilts
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On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 11:20:31AM -0500, Thom Paine wrote:
> Greetings list.
>
> I have added a second server with 1 samba share that I want to use to
> provide to a different group of people at a site I manage.
>
> Is there a way to sync the users between the two servers easily? Can I
> just copy the /etc/passwd file between the two?
You need the passwd and group entries (both shadown and non-shadow) plus
the smbpasswd entries.
We've got a pair of scripts (copy-users.sh and paste-users.pl) that
automates it for us. copy-user takes a list of users, creates a
tarball which we scp over to the target server, and then paste-user
extracts it out and does its magic. Once that's done, we rsynch the
user's home directory.
I could make this available but it will need some editing since it has
custom stuff just for us (it was designed to help us migrate an RHL 6.2
system to RHEL3). If all you want is users, groups, and passwords, and
don't carry about merging the groups between the two systems, this stuff
should do:
source:
grep ^${arg}: $LIVE/passwd >> $OUT/passwd
grep ^${arg}: $LIVE/shadow >> $OUT/shadow
grep ^${arg}: $LIVE/group >> $OUT/group
grep ^${arg}: $LIVE/gshadow >> $OUT/gshadow
grep ^${arg}: $LIVE/smbpasswd >> $OUT/smbpasswd
tar that up and copy it to the target system
target:
append each of those files to the running copies
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Ed Wilts, RHCE
Mounds View, MN, USA
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