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04-30-2011, 12:01 PM
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Registered: Apr 2011
Location: New York
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Users / Groups / Permissions?
Hey there we have a couple of boxes at our location and they all need the exact same user, group, and passwd configuration, whats the easiest way to standardize this?
Thanks.
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04-30-2011, 12:09 PM
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Registered: Dec 2010
Location: Internet
Distribution: Linux Mint, SLES, CentOS, Red Hat
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You can configure NIS or LDAP server to facilitate that.
Last edited by T3RM1NVT0R; 04-30-2011 at 12:24 PM.
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04-30-2011, 12:10 PM
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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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Firstly, centralization of the data, into ldap. Secondly, running puppet to ensure that a central set of configuration files are sent out to all clients. The first option is what you should do without a very good reason not to.
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