The psadmin login should be set up so that it has no access privileges. On this network, installation and configuration of P-Synch took about two hours. If you are working on a Linux-only network, the process will take less than ten minutes. Once properly configured, users anywhere on the network could run the P-Synch routines to modify their own passwords. The HTML interface in particular is friendly and attractive.
Administrators can change passwords from any client.
The amount of time required for a password change depends on the network load, the number of targets and the nature of the operating systems. On our test network, the password changes went quickly, completing in under two minutes. To test P-Synch with NIS, we set up one of the SCO machines as an NIS master and a Red Hat Linux system as the slave. We let NIS handle the password changes on half of the UNIX and Linux machines while P-Synch handled the rest of those types as well as the Windows machines. Propagation time for password changes didn't drop noticeably, which was expected since the Windows and application scripts are the major time consumers.