On Friday 26 December 2003 01.38, Eric wrote:
On Thursday 25 December 2003 06:20 pm, James Finnall wrote:
Have you considered just setting up a cron job to copy /etc/shadow wherever you need it? This could be done as often as you think would be required. If done through a shell script, the shell script could be executed manually as well when needed.
--- a few things cut --- Pardon my somewhat odd question to this, but why not use LDAP or maybe even NIS for the authentication? Not that i am a pro on LDAP (as a matter of fact i am just opening that book) but i seem to recall that you could group ppl with it. And thus get special login for the FTP services etc... -- /Rikard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rikard Johnels email : rikjoh@norweb.se Web : http://www.rikjoh.com Mob : +46 70 464 99 39 ------------------------ Public PGP fingerprint ---------------------------- < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 >