Comment P-Synch allows cross-platform password synching (Score 2, Informative) 328
There was review in Linux Journal back in 1999 of a product that addressed this problem:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3040
The company is M-Tech http://www.m-tech.ab.ca/, and they have a product called P-Synch that allows you to do cross-platform password syncing.
I've never used p-synch. We use openldap instead of a commercial product, but we don't use it for root passwords. Seems to me to be a security risk to have root the same on all boxes. You might be better served by having some sort of password scheme/algorithm rather than a common login, especially if the issue is being able to remember the password, rather than ease of mass changing/syncing of passwords.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3040
The company is M-Tech http://www.m-tech.ab.ca/, and they have a product called P-Synch that allows you to do cross-platform password syncing.
I've never used p-synch. We use openldap instead of a commercial product, but we don't use it for root passwords. Seems to me to be a security risk to have root the same on all boxes. You might be better served by having some sort of password scheme/algorithm rather than a common login, especially if the issue is being able to remember the password, rather than ease of mass changing/syncing of passwords.
