managing passwords

[Rudy Gevaert]

Hello,

I'm looking into softupdate and have a question about password management.

E.g. we have a slapd.conf file that needs a a password in it.  Up till 
now (not using softupdate) I fcopy the slapd.conf file on installation, 
and then afterwards I put the password in it.

If I would use softupdate and fcopy copies each time the template I 
would have to edit it each time.

But on the otherhand there shouldn't be any local modified files... so 
you would have to put the passwords on the install server.   But each 
install server can be mounted from any machine that is hooked onto the 
installation subnet...

How are you handling passwords in your environment?

Thanks in advance,
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Rudy Gevaert          Rudy.Gevaert at UGent.be          tel:+32 9 264 4734
Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur ICT Department, Infrastructure office
Groep Systemen                    Systems group
Universiteit Gent                 Ghent University
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