[SunHELP] quick passwd alternatives

[timuel-sunlist]

We do have several replicas, however sometimes machines tend to "get stuck" to a
particular replica, etc. So, for instance, if "smtp-server-A" is stuck to
"nis-replica-B" and "nis-replica-B" gets re-booted, lots of mail bounces.

Also, a catastrophic failure situation could be defined by many situations, for
instance, if the passwd-type-file that we use to generate the passwd.org_dir
gets corrupted/truncated and propagated through the replicas etc. (we were
trying to think of situations that haven`t occurred yet, and that we haven`t
thought of -- before they actually happen.

Does Solaris let you use /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow DBM files? Are there any
other alternatives to /etc/passwd in order to get "quick" local-passwd lookups?
CDB`s would be nice. Could anyone possible point me towards a how-to? We`d
basically like to use something like this in nsswitch.conf:

"passwd:    files nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] db"

Thanks.

--
timuel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Pennino" <jimp at specsol.com>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] quick passwd alternatives


| 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?
|
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| Jim Pennino
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