>>> Does it make sense to try to NFS-mount /etc/shadow from one machine >>> on the other? >> >> No. :) Rdist works well for keeping a handful of machines in sync. It takes a while to Distfile setup and identify all the files that have to be personalized, but it saves quite a bit of time in the long run. You never end up having one machine set up one way and another a different way. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ IPv6 on Fedora 7 http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/fedora/ipv6-tunnel.html