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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news-out.internetmci.com!pull-feed.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!natasha.rmii.com!news1.rmi.net!not-for-mail From: cshortreed@valnet.com (Craig A. Shortreed) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Spanning user accounts over multiple servers with RDIST Date: 9 Jun 1997 21:35:09 GMT Organization: Value Internet Lines: 8 Message-ID: <5nhsud$7sj$3@news1.rmi.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.inbalance.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.8 (x86 32bit) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6980 I am running BSDI 2.1/3.0 and want to replicate the user accounts over the servers so that they only have to be added once (or also change their password once). I know that I have to use rdist and pwd_mkdb, but am unsure of how to get the distfile correctly formatted to pass master.password and run the pwd_mkdb. Any ideas? Craig A. Shortreed