Dear frnds,
I have 2 hp ux 11i servers(S1 & S2) in cluster. In S1 I created all the users. Is it necessary to create the same users one by one in S2 also ?

pls help me.

Just check /etc/passwd in both nodes, it is likely that you will do the same on the 2nd node (creating users)

thanks dear andryk,

my intension is a shortcut, i think it wont be possible, creation of user is not only in passwd file no? it needs to create the user directory entries too ? anyhow if there is any solution pls send me.

regards

You have to do this:
1)Copy the passwd and group files to the second server ( first backup your files)


2) The you have to create manually each directory, but you can use the passwd file to do a little script to make all directorys with this scripts automatically. Have you ever have done any scripts??

Another solutions is to share with NFS the hard disk of your firts server, make a link for the passwd and group of second machine pointing to the firts machine. You will also need to share the home directory of users, but in this solutions you will lost some disk space.
Hope it works..

thank you very much moren,

can u email me the sample script to create user directories.

regards

if your passwd file is like this:

smith:*:100:100:8A-74(office):/home/smith:/usr/bin/sh
guest:*:200:0::/home/guest:/usr/bin/sh
...
....
.....

your script should be like this(depending your shell, the header may change):

#!/bin/sh
mkdir /home/smith
mkdir /home/guest
....
....


maybe you should use also the command chown for each directorio to change the owner from root to the user:group

If you use a replace tool you can change tha passwd file for the commands of the script very easy.
Hope It helps you.

Dear moren,

thanks for the reply, but i am lazy to create all the user directories with induvidual entries, could you suggest me a script which takes the username from the passwd file and creates concerned user directory in /home?

regards