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Conference smurf::ase

Title:ase
Moderator:SMURF::GROSSO
Created:Thu Jul 29 1993
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2114
Total number of notes:7347

1826.0. "/etc/passwd failover" by DAIVC::TEGUH () Wed Jan 15 1997 01:09

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1826.1ZEKE::ranger.zko.dec.com::dilsworthKeith DilsworthWed Jan 15 1997 16:3311
1826.2need further explain.DAIVC::TEGUHThu Jan 16 1997 07:416
1826.3Password Synchronization with lkr_aseuser scripts?ZPOVC::CSNAQSThu Mar 06 1997 06:398
    HI,
      Does it mean I could actually use the locker scripts to do the
    password synchronization since all alphaservers are internet energized
    meaning that they all come with Internet Software Kit without using
    NIS?
    
    
    Regards.
1826.4ZEKE::ranger.zko.dec.com::dilsworthKeith DilsworthMon Mar 10 1997 15:3022
The current script, lkr_aseusersync, is used to update /etc/passwd 
from an alternate passwd and group file.  By design, this is on the 
ASE disk.  It could just as well be an NFS mounted disk.

Users passwd and group entries that are updated are selected by 
either the user's UID falling in a certain range of UIDs or the user 
having a certain primary GID.

The script is a perl script and requires a perl that is statically 
linked with the fixed ndbm librarys.  There is a perl that meets 
these requiremnets supplied on the Internet AlphaServer CD-ROM.

Time frames depend on the speed of the server and the passwd options. 
 Creating and update a 60K user passwd file is about 4 minutes on my 
233 MHz alpha.  Runnning mkpasswd takes a long time (~15 min).  

Writing 60K C2 records to the shadow passwd file takes a very long 
time.  If you were just getting changes and not adding all entries to 
the shadow passwd file, this would only take a few seconds.