[SunHELP] quick passwd alternatives

[Jim Pennino]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 05:27:19PM -0500, timuel-sunlist wrote:
> I was having a discussion about what to do in the event of a catastrophic NIS+
> failure with some co-workers. We decided that it would be "nice" if we could
> just switch over to passwd/shadow files, however that doesn`t seem like such a
> great idea after realizing that our passwd.org_dir has close to 50,000 entries
> in it.
> 
> Does anyone know of any possible alternatives to normal passwd and shadow files
> with Solaris? Perhaps a DBM or CDB or some other sort of more efficient way of
> achieving the same functionality as standard passwd and shadow files?
> 
> If not, does anyone out there have any other suggestions for something to "fall
> back on" just in case of a catastrophic NIS+ failure?
> 
> TIA!
> 
> --
> timuel
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Depends on what you mean by "catastrophic"; the master server fails, the
building becomes a smoking hole...

Why wouldn't multiple slave servers work?

-- 
Jim Pennino