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Re: Optigold ISP 1.8.4...
From: Matt Simerson
Date: Friday, March 5, 1999
Time: 9:42:33 am
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Michael R. Thompson wrote:
> Shawn -
>
> Is there any hope that we will see something like a "change log" that will
> track all changes (added accounts, password changes, deleted
> emails/domains, etc., really any change that might affect a server setup)
> and have the capability to export even a plain text file of these changes
> so that we would be able to automate the change process on multiple servers?
Depending on what your servers are, there's probably a better way to do
this. I use Unix workstations (BSDI & FreeBSD) and have one Central
authentication database located on a file server. The file server doesn't
perform any services other than serving files. Then, every other server's
database get's synced with the file servers copy.
So, whenever we make a <user/password> <update/modify/delete> the process
looks like this:
Make the change in Optigold
Run the Update script in Optigold which:
telnets (or rsh's) to the file server
makes the changes to the authentication database (/etc/master.passwd)
runs a script that pushes a copy of the database to each of the other
(telnet, radius, web, and mail) servers.
exits.
The script that pushed the updates is simply makes a call to rdist or
rsync to push the updates to the other machines through a SSH tunnel. This
is the only way you want to move password files around your network.
If you have no idea how to get this working I'll share some of my scripts
that make it happen. It's really not that complex.
Matt
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