rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) (05/18/91)
The Novell network has support for synchronizing passwords across all servers whenever a user sets the password on any one of them. I have an environment which consists of several dissimilar Unix systems on a TCP/IP network; AIX is the main "server". Is there a reasonable way to propagate passwords to other systems whenever a user sets the user account password on one of them? Presumably, SCO and IBM use different hashing schemes for passwords, and they both go to some trouble to make the password-setting operation difficult. As things stand, it's hard for me to imagine having a secure network, because users will tend to leave their passwords as simple as possible for long periods on various systems, leaving the system open for password- hacking. Forcing them to change their password on a monthly basis would be nice, but impractical if they have to log into every system (some of which are used infrequently) to do so. -rich