[NTLUG:Discuss] user replication between 2 linux servers

[Greg Edwards]

Steve Jackson wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Use a combination of NIS, NFS, and automount.  You can put your files on
1 machine and mount from the server as well as the backup server.  Only
catch is that your actual file server would be a single.

Hope this helps.

-- 
Greg Edwards
New Age Software, Inc.
http://www.nas-inet.com