From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Hemingway Subject: Re: Password File Sync Script Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:02:30 -0700 Message-ID: <20060619140230.0e87b075@matth.ilan.cogent.net> References: Reply-To: matt.hemingway@pcnalert.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Sashikanth Madduri Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org What if you went the other way? Instead of pushing the files, the clients "grab" them. Would allowing root to ssh in only to the "main" server be a problem? -Matt On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:44:01 -0700 "Sashikanth Madduri" wrote: > Hi, > I am writing a script to update password files from the server to > all the clients in the network. > > I will be copying the following files periodically to all the clients: > > /etc/passwd > /etc/shadow > /etc/group > > scp is one option to do the remote copying. But, root ssh is disabled > in the clients and I cannot use scp. Is there any alternative > way(other than scp) to do this. Do I have to enable root ssh inorder > to do a remote copy of the above files. Please help. > > PS: I am not using NIS for password management. > > Thank you. > > Sashikanth Madduri. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html