[NTLUG:Discuss] user replication between 2 linux servers

[Jack Snodgrass]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Jackson" <sjackson at stratmarkcorp.com>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 11:04 AM
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] user replication between 2 linux servers


> 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.

NIS is what you want to use. The Linux stuff is called ypbind and
ypsomething
else. Look on www.linux.org in the docs section. There is a howto or
mini-howto
on setting this us.

use rsync to make sure that the files in your directories are synced up.

jack