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RE: [cobalt-users] Password Protection on Two RaQs
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Password Protection on Two RaQs
- From: "Clark E. Morgan" <prlhkr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri May 18 11:36:11 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> The only reasonable thing I can think of is to set up a "generic" user on
> RaQ #1 and give that info to the people hosted on RaQ #2. The
> problem there
> is that if the people on RaQ #2 go elsewhere, they'll still have the user
> name and password to get to the password-protected area (and changing it
> every time someone leaves means the hassle of distributing the new info to
> 100+ users on RaQ #2).
How about a cron job to synchronize the two files? Python or Perl would make
short
work of this. I'd recommend making copies on each machine, in some directory
other
than /etc, then synchronizing those via ftp using python and bit of regex.
Clark E. Morgan