copying user account?

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2008, vu pham wrote:
> peter360 wrote:
>> I have two linux hosts A and B.  I created an account for user X on A, and X
>> has logged into A to change his password.  Now I am setting up host B.  How
>> can I replicate the account info of user X from A to B, so that X can log
>> into B using the same password he uses to log into A?  Thanks.
>
> I would create user X on B and copy  X's password in /etc/shadow in host  
> A to /etc/shadow in host B.

That's one way.  Another that's more general would be to create
the appropriate openldap authentication information, export the
user(s) $HOME directory from one machine and use nss_ldap to
authenticate on the other machine(s).

Bill
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