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Re: (ASCEND) How do you update Secondary RADIUS Server ?
On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Bill Hamel wrote:
> I apologize if this isn't the right place for this post. However, I am
> curious of some different secure methods of keeping the master.passwd
> file up to date on a secondary RADIUS server.
Hmm.
rsync -e ssh /etc/shadow/master.passwd remotehost:/etc/shadow
does the trick quite nicely if you're running SunOS, etc and is extremely
fast, due to the fact that only deltas (changes) are sent.
In fact rsync is the bee's knees for shoving file changes around on lots
of systems.
It can run in both 'push' and 'pull' scenarios, which makes it better than
rdist/ssh for our purposes. We 'pull' from one master server and 'push' to
the slave servers, all from a 'secure' server. :-)
rsync is written by Andrew Tridgell (sp?) the same fellow that created
samba (free SMB file sharing for Unix).
Finding the source code for rsync and ssh is an exercise left for the
reader. :-)
Later,
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