[NTLUG:Discuss] user replication between 2 linux servers

[darins@earthling.net]

I would suggest using NIS & NFS.

NIS will allow you to automate a lot of this type of thing...user accounts & passwords, email aliases, groups, you name it.

--Darin W. Smith

>This may be a remedial question (or not), but >if I want to put 2 linux
>servers on the net as redundant mail >servers  (SMTP and POP3), is there an
>automated way to replicate user changes >between the 2 machines?  I could
>probably write a set of scripts to accomplish >this, but I thought I'd ask
>ya'lls opinions/advice first.  Are there any >commercial products to do this?
>Is there built-in functionality to do this?  >Having one box take over duties
>for the other, in case of failure, is no >prob, but making sure the users on
>box1 and box2 are the same (with the same >password) is my sticky point.



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