taylorr@luna.cs.unc.edu (Russell Taylor (Comp 238 f86)) (05/22/89)
QUESTION:
I would like to locate a utility
that would allow users to change their password on one machine
(in this case a VAX 6310 running ULTRIX),
and have that change automatically propagated to all the other
department
machines on which they have accounts. Optimally, this utility
would distribute the encoded password so that our programs
that search for easy-to-break passwords would only have to work
on one encryption for each user.
Our department has a large number and variety of UNIX machines,
including
suns, VAXes, and a Data General. All but the DG run some version
of BSD UNIX (ULTRIX, 4.3 Mt. Xinu, SUN/OS), and the DG runs DG/UX,
a System V/4.2 combination. The suns have a common user community,
but each of the other machines has a separate set of users and
therefore a separate password file.
While we have the ability to use the yellow pages, the different
users on each machine make this undesirable.
I would like to hear from anyone who has installed such a system.
Thanks in advance.